Thinking Machines Lab Releases "Inkling" — 975B Apache-2.0 Multimodal Open-Weights Model

Summary

Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter (≈41B active) mixture-of-experts multimodal model under an Apache 2.0 license, trained on roughly 45 trillion tokens and supporting text, image, and audio inputs. Coverage positions it as the leading U.S. open-weights release, with immediate ecosystem support across major inference platforms on launch day. For us the notable angle is provenance and licensing: a permissively licensed, U.S.-origin, frontier-scale multimodal model nar