Inkling from Thinking Machines generates visuals as code, sparking neuro-symbolic debate

_Hao_Zhu · x · 2026-11-09

Blogger ZhongRuiqi shared hands-on experience with Inkling from Thinking Machines, calling visual creation with it "seriously fun" and arguing that the future of image/video generation may not be pixels but code — with neuro-symbolic AI turning out to be the answer, despite the term being previously mocked as "grumpy academia."

The quoted original post shows Inkling 2 Small can "paint" (video + audio made in code), with side-by-side comparisons against GLM 5.3 Flash, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Qwen 3.8 Flash on the same prompts.

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