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Thinking Machines releases Inkling, a 975B parameter open-weights multimodal model

Thinking Machines Lab has released Inkling, a new family of open-weights multimodal foundation models. The flagship Inkling model features 975 billion total parameters with 41 billion active, supports a 1 million token context window, and is trained on 45 trillion tokens of text, images, and audio. A smaller version, Inkling-Small, with 12 billion active parameters, is also available. The models are licensed under Apache 2.0 and are designed for efficient reasoning across text, image, and audio modalities, positioning them as a strong baseline for customization and practical applications. AI

IMPACT Establishes a new strong baseline for American open-weight multimodal models, encouraging customization and practical applications.

RANK_REASON First fully released open-weights foundation model family from Thinking Machines Lab. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Thinking Machines releases Inkling, a 975B parameter open-weights multimodal model

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  1. Latent Space (swyx) TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    [AINews] Thinky's Inkling: 975B-A41B multimodal, new best American Apache 2.0 open model (with Inkling-Small, 276B-A12B)

    Thinky's first full LLM release is a banger and bonus: it's open weights!