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Inkling-Small is an open-weights model released by thinkingmachines that matches…

2026-07-30 · 17:47 UTC ·@thinkymachines ·0 min read

Brief

Inkling-Small is a publicly released, open-weights multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model that claims Inkling-level performance at a quarter of the size (276B total, 12B active). ThinkingMachines is publishing the full weights and enabling fine-tuning on Tinker plus interactive use through Tinker Playground for text, image, and audio.

Why it matters

Inkling-Small is an open-weights model released by thinkingmachines that matches Inkling's performance at one-quarter the size: 276B total parameters with 12B active parameters.

Key details

  • Model is multimodal and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) with controllable reasoning effort; full weights are being published and users can fine-tune it on Tinker or chat via Tinker Playground (text, image, audio).
Source evidence

Today, we are releasing Inkling-Small.

Inkling-Small achieves comparable performance to Inkling at a quarter of its size. It features 276B total parameters, 12B active. We are making the full weights available.

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Fine-tune it on Tinker today, or chat with it in text, image, and audio on Tinker Playground.

Link

Introducing Inkling-Small

An open-weights model that matches Inkling at a quarter of the size: multimodal, Mixture-of-Experts, with controllable reasoning effort. Fine-tune it on Tinker.
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