Thinking Machines: Inkling Small.
Inkling-Small is an Apache 2.0 mixture-of-experts model, 276B total and 12B active, that takes text, images and short audio clips and returns text.
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About Thinking Machines: Inkling Small.
Inkling-Small is an Apache 2.0 open-weights model from Thinking Machines that takes text, images and audio and returns text. It has 276 billion parameters, 12 billion active, across 42 layers, routing each token to 6 of 256 experts plus 2 shared ones. Audio should be 16kHz WAV, ideally under 2 minutes. The maker aims it at developers building agents, coding assistants, chatbots and retrieval systems. It warns of hallucination, missed instructions and weaker results in long conversations, and advises human review for high-stakes use.