Inkling-Small
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Overview
276B / 12B-active open MoE, natively multimodal with an encoder-free architecture (hierarchical patch encoding for images, dMel...
Details
- Vendor
- Thinking Machines Lab
- Type
- Multimodal LLM
- Release year
- 2026
- Jurisdiction
- USA
- CEO
- Mira Murati
- Key staffers
- John Schulman (Co-Founder, Chief Scientist), Barret Zoph (CTO)
- Deployment
- Open weights (Hugging Face) + API; day-zero SGLang, Unsloth GGUF, Baseten support
- Open source
- Yes
- Free tier
- Yes
- Subscription
- API: $0.30/M input, $1.20/M output (~3-4x cheaper than Inkling).
- Stock status
- Private ($12B valuation at Jul 2025 raise)
- X
- @thinkymachines
Known safety issues
None publicly documented
AIDb Rating
AIDb v2.0 (curated): Capability 8/10 · Currency 10/10 · Access 8/10 · Significance 7/10 → 8.25
Last verified 2026-08-09 · Primary source ↗
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“Inkling-Small.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-08-09. https://theaidatabase.com/m/thinking-machines-inkling-small.html