Thinking Machines releases open-weight Inkling-Small: 12B active params, beats larger Inkling on HLE (31.6% vs 29.7%)
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-07-31
Thinking Machines releases open-weight Inkling-Small with 276B total params and 12B active (vs 41B for Inkling). Scores 31.6% on HLE, beating Inkling's 29.7%, and 80.2% on SWEBench Verified. Features revised pretraining mix, distillation from Inkling, and two extra weeks of agentic coding RL. Designed for audio intelligence. Full weights available; fine-tune on Tinker or chat in Playground.
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