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Thinking Machines releases Inkling, a 1T-parameter multimodal LLM with 1M context

Thinking Machines has released Inkling, a large multimodal language model with approximately 1 trillion parameters and a 1 million token context window. The model natively processes text, image, and audio inputs, and features agentic capabilities. Inkling is built on a decoder-only Mixture-of-Experts architecture with hybrid attention mechanisms and is available with open weights for research and fine-tuning. AI

IMPACT Sets a new benchmark for multimodal LLMs with large context windows, potentially accelerating development of complex reasoning applications.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=2 ai=1.0]

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Thinking Machines releases Inkling, a 1T-parameter multimodal LLM with 1M context

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COVERAGE [3]

  1. Hugging Face Blog TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Welcome Inkling by Thinking Machines

  2. Hugging Face Trending Models TIER_1 English(EN) · thinkingmachines ·

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    image-text-to-text · 4 downloads · 51 likes

  3. Hugging Face Trending Models TIER_1 English(EN) · thinkingmachines ·

    thinkingmachines/Inkling

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