Inkling
An open-weight multimodal AI model from Thinking Machines that reasons efficiently across text, image, and audio modalities.
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How Inkling compares
2 creators weighed in
"Very simple suggestion for every company: implement two installations, Kimi K3 and Inkling. Fine-tune your own internal data because that learning loop is going to be the proprietary gold that you don't want to lose. And start there."
Recommended alongside Kimi K3 as a two-installation strategy
"Mira Murati just released Inkling, which is fantastic to see — a US open-source lab. It's designed for you to pick it up as a corporation and fine-tune it within your corporate walls to whatever your use case is."
Compared to Kimi K3 as proof that open-source models can approach the frontier; same compute as Kimi K3 according to Emad
What creators say
"Very simple suggestion for every company: implement two installations, Kimi K3 and Inkling. Fine-tune your own internal data because that learning loop is going to be the proprietary gold that you don't want to lose. And start there."
More from Salim Ismail →"I think of like Thinking Machines getting Inkling out where it's like they were very transparent. They're like this wasn't the best model. We're proud of it. It has some cool things."
More from Nathan Lambert →"Inkling is definitely a V0 model. From what I know about Thinking Machines, they had a big restructuring about 6 months ago team-wise, and then they kind of restarted everything, and Inkling came out of that. Within that time, they've become the n..."
More from Anastasios Angelopoulos →
"Mira Murati just released Inkling, which is fantastic to see — a US open-source lab. It's designed for you to pick it up as a corporation and fine-tune it within your corporate walls to whatever your use case is."
More from Emad Mostaque →"The Inkling announcement was kind of interesting because the value prop there is she's explicitly saying that we're not frontier intelligence — we're just under that, but we're a platform for fine-tuning these open models which are much, much chea..."
More from Jason Calacanis →
"It's called Inkling. It's an open-weight foundation AI model that can be downloaded by anyone, fine-tuned and run on-prem on your own hardware. It's a mixture of experts model with 975 billion total parameters, only fires 41 billion at any one time."
More from Peter Diamandis →
"Breaking news from Thinking Machines — they just launched a new model and it's open weight. It's called Inkling. Inkling reasons efficiently across text, image, and audio modalities. We are making the full weights available."
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