Thinking Machines Releases Open-Weight Inkling-Small with 276B Total Params
gaganghotra_ · x · 2026-07-31
Thinking Machines has announced the release of a new open-weight model, Inkling-Small.
- Architecture & Scale: The model features 276B total parameters with 12B active parameters (MoE architecture).
- Performance: It achieves comparable performance to the original Inkling at just a quarter of the size, while maintaining fast inference speeds.
- Availability: Weights are now available on Hugging Face and Tinker Playground. Users can fine-tune it on Tinker or interact with it via text, image, and audio on Tinker Playground.
Related event: Inkling-Small: 276B params, 12B active, open-source tops ARC(48 posts)→
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