Inkling-Small
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A to Z
- A · App
- No
- B · Built By
- Thinking Machines Lab
- C · CEO & Politics
- Mira Murati — No public partisan activity documented
- D · Date
- 2026
- E · Expertise
- Intermediate+
- F · Free Tier
- Yes
- G · Generates
- Text only
- H · Deployment
- Open weights (Hugging Face) + API; day-zero SGLang, Unsloth GGUF, Baseten support
- I · Inputs
- Text+Image+Audio
- J · Jurisdiction
- USA
- K · Key Staffers
- John Schulman (Co-Founder, Chief Scientist), Barret Zoph (CTO)
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- Multimodal LLM
- N · Safety Issues
- None reported
- O · Open Source
- Yes — open weights
- P · Pricing
- Free (open weights, Apache 2.0); Tinker API $0.30/M input, $1.20/M output ($0.06/M cached)
- Q · AIDb Rating
- 8/10 · AIDb v2.0 (curated): Capability 8/10 · Currency 10/10 · Access 8/10 · Significance 7/10 → 8.25
- R · What Makes It Special
- 276B / 12B-active open MoE, natively multimodal with an encoder-free architecture (hierarchical patch encoding for images, dMel spectrograms straight into the decoder for audio) and variable thinking effort. On-policy distillation from Inkling plus two extra weeks of agentic-coding RL let it beat its 975B teacher on SWE-Bench Verified (80.2 vs 77.6) and ARC-AGI-2 (40.1 vs 36.5), though factual recall regressed hard (SimpleQA 20.6 vs 43.9).
- S · Stock / Status
- Private ($12B valuation at Jul 2025 raise)
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- Downloadable
- X · X Handle
- @thinkymachines
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Open-weights Multimodal LLM from Thinking Machines Lab, released 2026.
Data completeness 88% · 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