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Thinking Machines launches open-weight multimodal model Inkling
Inkling, released July 15, is trained from scratch with full weights available on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license.
Thinking Machines Lab has released its first AI model, Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter multimodal system trained entirely from scratch and made available with full weights for download.
The model, launched July 15, is published on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license. It is described as a mixture-of-experts design, with 41 billion active parameters per task and support for inputs including text, images, and audio, along with a 1 million token context window.
Decrypt reports Inkling scored 74.1% on MCP Atlas for agentic tool use, nearly 30 points above Nvidia’s Nemotron 3 Ultra, positioning it as the top-performing Western open-weights model on that metric. The article notes that Chinese models GLM 5.2 and Kimi K2.6 still lead on several benchmarks.
The piece also details the background of founder Mira Murati, who left OpenAI in September 2024. Thinking Machines, the company she founded in February 2025, raised $2 billion at a $12 billion valuation in July 2025, according to Decrypt, after which it reportedly sought a $50 billion raise in late 2025 before talks ended by January 2026.