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ThinkyMachines announced Inkling on 2026-07-15 as their first open-weights model…

Brief

ThinkyMachines introduced Inkling (announced 2026-07-15), their first open-weights multimodal model that handles text, image, and audio. Built as a Mixture-of-Experts with a tunable ‘reasoning effort’ control, the full weights are released publicly. Developers can fine-tune Inkling on Tinker and experiment with it in the Inkling Playground.

Why it matters

ThinkyMachines announced Inkling on 2026-07-15 as their first open-weights model, releasing the full model weights publicly.

Key details

  • Inkling is multimodal (text, image, audio), uses a Mixture-of-Experts architecture, and offers controllable reasoning effort.
  • Inkling is available today for fine-tuning on Tinker and can be tried in the Inkling Playground hosted by ThinkyMachines.
Source evidence

Today, we are introducing Inkling.

Inkling reasons efficiently across text, image, and audio modalities. We are making the full weights available.

thinkingmachines.ai/news/int…

Available today for fine-tuning on Tinker. Play with it in the Inkling Playground. 🧵

Link

Inkling: Our open-weights model

Our first open-weights model: multimodal, Mixture-of-Experts, with controllable reasoning effort. Available to fine-tune on Tinker.
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