Inkling
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Overview
Thinking Machines' first-ever model: 975B total / 41B active MoE pretrained from scratch on 45T multimodal tokens (text, images, audio...
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; Apache 2.0) + Tinker platform (limited-time 50% discount)
- Open source
- Yes
- Free tier
- Yes
- 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 8/10 → 8.40
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