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thinkingmachines.ai unveils open-source multimodal model Inkling

thinkingmachines.ai has launched Inkling, a new multimodal AI model capable of reasoning across text, image, and audio. The company is releasing the full model weights, making it open-source and fine-tunable on their Tinker platform. Users can experiment with Inkling via a dedicated playground. AI

IMPACT This release offers an open-source, multimodal model with fine-tuning capabilities, potentially lowering barriers for AI development and experimentation.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

Read on X — Mira Murati →

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thinkingmachines.ai unveils open-source multimodal model Inkling

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  1. X — Mira Murati TIER_1 English(EN) · miramurati ·

    Our first model, Inkling. Trained from scratch, weights are open, fine-tunable on Tinker today.

    Our first model, Inkling. Trained from scratch, weights are open, fine-tunable on Tinker today.