Inkling Released: Multimodal with Strong Audio Capabilities
thinkymachines · x · 2026-07-16
Inkling natively supports text, audio, and image inputs, with particularly outstanding performance in audio. The author claims it ranks in the first tier among open-weight models on benchmarks like VoiceBench, MMAU, and AudioMC.
Replies add that Inkling exposes cost and latency trade-offs to the user through a "continuous thinking" mechanism: you can achieve the same scores using fewer tokens, allowing for a balance between cost and performance.
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