Inkling
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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; Apache 2.0) + Tinker platform (limited-time 50% discount)
- 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 $1.00/M input, $4.05/M output ($0.17/M cached)
- Q · AIDb Rating
- 8/10 · AIDb v2.0 (curated): Capability 8/10 · Currency 10/10 · Access 8/10 · Significance 8/10 → 8.40
- R · What Makes It Special
- Thinking Machines' first-ever model: 975B total / 41B active MoE pretrained from scratch on 45T multimodal tokens (text, images, audio, video), released under Apache 2.0 — the most permissive license at that parameter scale. Encoder-free native reasoning over text, image and audio; 1M-token context; 41 on the AA Index (top US open-weights model at release).
- 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.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-08-09. https://theaidatabase.com/m/thinking-machines-inkling.html