Inkling: Our open-weights model
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- Blog / Newsletter2026-07-16 19:07:19Inkling: Our open-weights model
<p><strong><a href="https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/">Inkling: Our open-weights model</a></strong></p> Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab just released their first open-weights model. Inkling is "a Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 975B total parameters, 41B active" - an Apache-2.0 licensed multimodal model trained on 45 trillion tokens of text, images, audio and video.</p> <p>They're also promising Inkling-Small, a 276B (12B active) model, but that's still being tested and the weights will be released "once that work is complete".</p> <p>The <a href="https://thinkingmachines.ai/model-card/inkling/">model card</a> is much shorter than I've come to expect from US AI labs. It links to even shorter <a href="https://thinkingmachines.ai/training-data-documentation/">Training Data Documentation</a> with almost nothing of interest in it - it's best summarized by these two paragraphs:</p> <blockquote> <p>The datasets Thinking Machines Lab uses to develop its AI services