Thinking Machines Launches Inkling
ArtificialAnlys · x · 2026-07-16
Thinking Machines has launched Inkling, its first production-grade language model and a new leader among US open-weight models.
Key Details
- Scale: 975B total parameters, 41B active parameters
- Modalities: Supports text, image, and audio inputs; outputs text
- Context: 256K on the Tinker API; 1M for the open-weight version
- Pricing: At 64K context, $1.87 per 1M input tokens and $4.68 per 1M output tokens; higher at 256K
Benchmark Performance
- Scored 41 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, surpassing the previous best US open-weight model, Nemotron 3 Ultra (38)
- Excels in agentic tasks, leading some competitors on GDPval-AA v2 and 𝜏³-Banking
- Highly token-efficient, with lower average output token counts compared to GLM-5.2, Kimi K2.6, and DeepSeek v4 Pro
Technical Implementation
- Images/videos are encoded via a hierarchical patch encoder
- Audio is encoded using discrete tokens
- All modalities are projected into a shared hidden space and jointly processed by a decoder
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