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Inkling — Thinking Machines Lab's first model trained from scratch: a 975B-parameter open-weights multimodal Mixture-of-Experts with 41B active parameters and controllable thinking effort, released under Apache 2.0 in July 2026.

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Inkling is a multimodal AI model by Thinking Machines Lab. Inkling — Thinking Machines Lab's first model trained from scratch: a 975B-parameter open-weights multimodal Mixture-of-Experts with 41B active parameters and controllable thinking effort, released under Apache 2.0 in July 2026. This page tracks 93 recent news stories about Inkling, curated from 30+ sources and updated every 15 minutes.

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Thinking Machines open sources first multimodal language model, Inkling, focused on low cost and 'resistance to censorship'
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Thinking Machines open sources first multimodal language model, Inkling, focused on low cost and 'resistance to censorship'

A startup called Thinking Machines has released an open-source AI model that explicitly markets itself as resistant to content moderation, a provocative move that challenges the industry consensus that large language models should come with built-in safeguards against misuse. The model, called Inkling, promises cheaper operation than competitors like GPT-4 and Claude, potentially democratizing access to powerful artificial intelligence at a moment when tech giants have largely consolidated control over the most capable systems. The release highlights a growing philosophical fault line in AI development: whether openness and accessibility should trump safety considerations, a tension that regulators and researchers are increasingly trying to resolve.

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SK Telecom A.X K2 Reaches IMO Gold-Medal Level, Ties Inkling at AIME Top

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Mira Murati Inkling vs OpenAI: Open Weight AI 2026

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Thinking Machines debuts Inkling Small open source AI model nearing performance of predecessor at about 1/4 size
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Thinking Machines debuts Inkling Small open source AI model nearing performance of predecessor at about 1/4 size

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Thinking Machines Ships Inkling-Small: Open-Weights Competition Now Has a US Entrant
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Thinking Machines Ships Inkling-Small: Open-Weights Competition Now Has a US Entrant

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Inkling-Small-276B-12B, effort "max" VS Qwen3.6-27B

I saw u/danielhanchen's 1-bit Kimi K3 post: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Kimi-K3-GGUF/discussions/12#6a6a4a90ec74ef13d85d7cf6 and decided to test Inkling-Small and Qwen3.6-27B myself, based on the...

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Inkling-Small by thinkingmachines

276B total parameters, 12B active, 1M context window. Blog post: https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/inkling-small/ NVFP4: https://huggingface.co/thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small-NVFP4 GGUF's by Unsloth:...

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Review: Lara Ricote: INKLING

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You Were Always There

I See You Now Continue reading on Nova Inklings »

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DeepSeek V4 Flash just drew a pretty brutal "kill line" on this chart
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DeepSeek V4 Flash just drew a pretty brutal "kill line" on this chart

"Kill line" sounds like pure clickbait, but the blue dot kind of earns it. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 sits around 50 on the Artificial Analysis index at roughly three cents per weighted task. In this...

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"Inkling Small from @thinkymachines on ARC-AGI (Verified): - ARC-AGI-2: 40.1%, $0.23/task - ARC-AGI-1: 84%, $0.11/task Inkling Small is the highest-scoring open-weight model evaluated by ARC Prize on both ARC-AGI-1 and ARC-AGI-2, setting a new cost-performance frontier."

Full results: https:// arcprize.org/results/thinky -inkling-small … ARC-AGI-3 evaluations are more operationally intensive, so results will roll out over the next few weeks. - Leaderboard: https://...

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Inkling Small lands within a point of Inkling on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with less than a third of the parameters

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Inkling: A 1 Trillion-Parameter Open AI Model That Understands Text, Images, and Audio

Most open AI models are good at one thing. Some are excellent at coding. Others are great at understanding images. A few can process audio. Continue reading on Coding Nexus »

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SK Telecom AX K2 reaches IMO gold-medal level, ties Inkling at AIME top

SK Telecom A.X K2 scored at the IMO 2026 gold-medal threshold and tied for first on the MathArena AIME 2026 leaderboard -- the first AI model developed outside the US or China to reach Olympic-level...

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Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling-Small: A 276B Total, 12B Active Open Weights Multimodal MoE Model
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Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling-Small: A 276B Total, 12B Active Open Weights Multimodal MoE Model

Inkling-Small matches Inkling at a quarter the size, and its NVFP4 checkpoint runs on one NVIDIA B300 GPU The post Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling-Small: A 276B Total, 12B Active Open Weights...

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Latest open artifacts (#23): Laguna S2.1, Inkling, & Kimi K3 show the utility of open models on the Pareto frontier

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Shortly After Weng Li's Return to OpenAI, Thinking Machines Unveils Its Brand-New AI Model

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“小号”美国最强开源模型：Inkling-Small 登场，约 1/4 规模提供相近 AI 性能
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“小号”美国最强开源模型：Inkling-Small 登场，约 1/4 规模提供相近 AI 性能

IT之家此前报道，Inkling 号称“美国最强开源 AI 模型”，采用混合专家（MoE）架构，总参数 975B、激活参数 41B，最长上下文 1M tokens。 而本次推出的 Inkling-Small 模型同样采用混合专家（MoE）架构，总参数为 276B，激活参数为 12B，规模约为 Inkling 的 1/4，在 NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 系统上训练。

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Inkling Doesn’t Need to Be the Best Model. It Needs to Be the Permitted One.
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Inkling Doesn’t Need to Be the Best Model. It Needs to Be the Permitted One.

by Bloom — Because the market Thinking Machines just entered doesn’t price capability — it prices provenance.

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What is Inkling?

Inkling is Inkling — Thinking Machines Lab's first model trained from scratch: a 975B-parameter open-weights multimodal Mixture-of-Experts with 41B active parameters and controllable thinking effort, released under Apache 2.0 in July 2026.

What is the latest news about Inkling?

As of today, there are 93 recent stories about Inkling. Recent headlines include: SK Telecom A.X K2 Reaches IMO Gold-Medal Level, Ties Inkling at AIME Top; Review: Lara Ricote: INKLING; SK Telecom AX K2 reaches IMO gold-medal level, ties Inkling at AIME top. Updated every 15 minutes.

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