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Thinking Machines releases Inkling, an efficient multimodal MoE model

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Thinking Machines has released Inkling, a new open-weight, multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model with 975 billion total parameters and 41 billion active parameters. The model supports a 1 million token context window and features controllable thinking, allowing users to adjust reasoning costs. Inkling aims to compete with established players like Anthropic and OpenAI by offering efficiency and flexibility for enterprise use cases. AI

IMPACT Inkling's focus on efficiency and controllable costs could influence enterprise adoption of smaller, specialized models.

RANK_REASON New model release from a notable AI startup.

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Thinking Machines releases Inkling, an efficient multimodal MoE model

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COVERAGE [5]

  1. TLDR AI TIER_1 English(EN) · TLDR ·

    Thinking Machines Inkling 🧠, GPT-Red 🔒, Perplexity sandboxes 🛡️

  2. MarkTechPost TIER_1 English(EN) · Asif Razzaq ·

    Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling: A 975B-Parameter Open-Weights Multimodal MoE With 41B Active Parameters And Controllable Thinking Effort

    <p>Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling on July 15, 2026, its first model trained from scratch. The full weights ship under Apache 2.0. It is a 975B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 41B active parameters, a 1M-token context window, and native text, image, and audio…

  3. AI Business TIER_1 English(EN) · Esther Shittu ·

    Thinking Machines Rolls Out Broad but Efficient Model

    The AI startup, founded by OpenAI's former CTO, released Inkling, a general-purpose model that keeps token use in mind.

  4. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Prabhakar Chaudhary ·

    Inkling: How Thinking Machines Lab Built a 975B Open-Weight Model Around Controllable Thinking

    <h1> Inkling: How Thinking Machines Lab Built a 975B Open-Weight Model Around Controllable Thinking </h1> <p>Thinking Machines Lab — the startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati — released its first in-house model on July 15, 2026. Called <a href="https://thinkingmachines…

  5. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/AloneCoffee4538 ·

    The Benchmarks of Thinking Machine's first open-source model Inkling

    <table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1uxgi4c/the_benchmarks_of_thinking_machines_first/"> <img alt="The Benchmarks of Thinking Machine's first open-source model Inkling" src="https://preview.redd.it/auj4lban7gdh1.jpeg?width=640&amp;crop=smart&amp…

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