Inkling Evaluation and Positioning Revealed
natolambert · x · 2026-07-16
The post reviews Thinky Machines' new model, Inkling:
- Scale of approximately 1T parameters, with 41B active
- Licensed under Apache-2
- Benchmark performance is considered a significant leap over Nemotron Ultra (55B active); the author calls it the new best American model, supporting omni input
- However, it still slightly trails GLM 5.2 on agentic benchmarks and falls behind Kimi K 2.6 in multimodal tasks
The poster expressed clear excitement and thanked the team.
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