Inkling seen as a strong base for fine-tuning

clarejtbirch · x · 2026-07-16

The poster finds the release of Inkling "very interesting and exciting." They noted that while recent open-source models have progressed rapidly in coding and tool usage, Inkling is a more balanced model that could become a highly popular base for fine-tuning to frontier capabilities.

The original release info remains the same: Inkling can reason across text, image, and audio, features fully open weights, and is ready for immediate fine-tuning on Tinker.

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