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- [1]90%thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inklingthinkingmachines.ai· Posted Oct 12, 2026· Starts Jul 15, 2026 ✓· 24% of score
Thinking Machines[3]' post "Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model" is dated Jul 15, 2026 and says "Today we are advancing our mission by releasing a model we trained from scratch"; The Next Web[5] ran its report on July 15 and OpenRouter[4] lists it from Jul 17.
- [2]90%thinkingmachines/Inkling - Hugging Facehuggingface.co· Added Oct 12, 2026· 24% of score
Model card: 975B total and 41B active parameters, 66-layer sparse MoE with 6 of 256 routed experts plus 2 shared, Apache 2.0, BF16 and NVFP4 weights, text/image/audio input with text output, and the benchmark table against Gemini 3.1 Pro, Claude Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol.[1]
- [3]90%Introducing Inkling-Small - Thinking Machines Labthinkingmachines.ai· Published Jul 30, 2026· 18% of score
The lab's follow-up two weeks later: Inkling-Small, 276B total and 12B active, and the output pricing of $4.05 per 1 million tokens for Inkling against $1.20 for Inkling-Small.[1]
- [4]80%Thinking Machines: Inkling - OpenRouteropenrouter.ai· Published Jul 17, 2026· 17% of score
Router listing: 41B active of 975B, 524K context, $0.95 per 1 million input tokens and $4.05 per 1 million output tokens, released Jul 17, 2026.[1]
- [5]80%Thinking Machines debuts Inkling, a giant open model it admits is not the best - The Next Webthenextweb.com· Published Jul 15, 2026· 17% of score
Independent launch-day report: the lab's first model, open-weight and not the strongest, distillation from other open models including Kimi K2.5, built in about nine months, and a Bridgewater fine-tuning result that is the partners' own evaluation.[1]
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