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Thinking Machines' Inkling leads US open-weight models with 41 Intelligence Index score

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Thinking Machines has released Inkling, an open-weight AI model that achieved a score of 41 on the Intelligence Index, positioning it as a leader among U.S. open-weight releases. While Inkling demonstrates strong reasoning capabilities, it also exhibits a significant hallucination rate of 63% on knowledge-based tasks. The model's substantial GPU memory requirements present a practical challenge for potential adopters. AI

IMPACT Sets a new benchmark for US open-weight models, but high hallucination rates and memory requirements pose adoption challenges.

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

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Thinking Machines' Inkling leads US open-weight models with 41 Intelligence Index score

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    Thinking Machines' Inkling scores 41 on the Intelligence Index, leading U.S. open-weight releases. The model shows strong reasoning benchmarks but a 63% halluci

    Thinking Machines' Inkling scores 41 on the Intelligence Index, leading U.S. open-weight releases. The model shows strong reasoning benchmarks but a 63% hallucination rate on knowledge tasks. Deployment requires substantial GPU memory, raising practical questions for companies we…

    LINKS implicator.ai/thinking-machines-inkling-t…

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