Thinking Machines releases Inkling-Small, an open-weight model with 276B total and 12B active parameters, saying it "achieves comparable performance" to Inkling (Thinking Machines Lab)
Inkling-Small is the efficiency follow-up: full open weights, 276B total parameters, and 12B active.
Thinking Machines says the model reaches comparable performance to Inkling at about a quarter of its size. It is a general-purpose multimodal model, with text, image, and audio support, and variable thinking effort. The company says it used lessons from Inkling, including an improved pre-training mix, a refined training recipe, distillation from Inkling, and additional agentic coding RL. Techmeme's note
Thinking Machines says the model reaches comparable performance to Inkling at about a quarter of its size. It is a general-purpose multimodal model, with text, image, and audio support, and variable thinking effort. The company says it used lessons from Inkling, including an improved pre-training mix, a refined training recipe, distillation from Inkling, and additional agentic coding RL. Techmeme's note
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