Inkling Falls Short of Frontier Open-Source Models
emollick · x · 2026-07-16
While welcoming the new open-weight model, the author noted that in their tests, Inkling currently performs quite roughly, showing a clear gap compared to frontier Chinese open-source models.
They provided a specific example: the model failed the Lem Test, which almost every frontier model has passed since DeepSeek r1 / Sonnet 3.5.
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