Model family
Inkling
Family overview — summarizes releases; licenses and availability belong to each release.
Maintained by Thinking Machines Lab23
Inkling is Thinking Machines Lab's family of open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts models that accept text, image, and audio input and produce text. The first release, Inkling (975B total and 41B active parameters), was published on July 15, 2026, followed by Inkling-Small (276B total and 12B active) on July 30, 2026.123
- Model hub: Thinking Machines Lab on Hugging Face (external site: huggingface.co)
- Release notes: Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model (external site: thinkingmachines.ai)
Last reviewedEntry updated Documented release
Releases assessed
Each release is assessed on its own. This family has no family-wide openness label.
| Release | Weights | Tier (USASI rubric v0.1) | License | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inkling | Weights: Public | Model-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.1): Open-weight | Apache-2.0 | Jul 15, 2026 |
| Inkling-Small | Weights: Public | Model-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.1): Open-weight | Apache-2.0 | Jul 30, 2026 |
What it is useful for
The developer presents the family as a general base for customization and fine-tuning, including through its Tinker platform.1
Organization context
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Sources
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