Thinking Machines debuts Inkling Small open source AI model nearing performance of predecessor at about 1/4 size

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Thinking Machines released Inkling-Small, a new open source multimodal AI model that approaches the performance of its larger Inkling predecessor while using far fewer active parameters. The company says the model supports text, image, and audio inputs, offers a long context window, and can be fine-tuned through its Tinker API. It also priced the model for API use and published full weights on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license. The launch targets enterprise developers that want lower compute costs, easier deployment, and broad commercial licensing flexibility. The company also signaled a repeatable model pipeline and a broader cadence of future releases.

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