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Thinking Machines launches Inkling multimodal AI model on Modal

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Thinking Machines has launched Inkling, a new multimodal AI model capable of processing text, images, and audio to generate text outputs. This model, featuring a mixture-of-experts architecture with 975 billion total parameters and a 1 million token context window, is designed for efficiency and speed. Inkling is now accessible via Modal's managed endpoints, offering token-based pricing and optimized performance for agentic workloads. AI

IMPACT Inkling's efficient architecture and multimodal capabilities could set new benchmarks for open-source models and influence future AI development.

RANK_REASON New multimodal model release from a notable AI lab. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Thinking Machines launches Inkling multimodal AI model on Modal

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  1. Modal blog TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Inkling by Thinking Machines now available on Modal

    Inkling, a general-purpose multimodal model by Thinking Machines, along with a custom trained DFlash speculator, is now available on Modal.

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