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Inkling

by Thinking Machines LabUS

Demonstrate that frontier-quality multimodal models can be trained and released openly, empowering independent researchers and builders to customize and extend frontier AI.

DeployStage 4 of 5

First release deployed. Open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model trained from scratch.

Updated 15 Jul 2026Checked 11 Oct0 updates this week

Milestones

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  1. Inkling released as open-weight15 Jul 2026Complete.
  2. Inkling-Small variant releasedJul 2026Complete.

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