

Inkling-Small
#8 in OtherThinking Machines · small · 2× · last seen Jul 20, 2026
Inkling-Small is a lightweight AI model presented as a preview by Thinking Machines Lab on July 15, 2026 – a sibling model to the flagship "Inkling". It is a Mixture-of-Experts model with 276 billion total parameters and 12 billion active parameters, developed using a similar training recipe as Inkling, and achieves comparable or better results on multiple Benchmarks at lower costs and reduced latency. At present, the full model weights have not yet been released; Thinking Machines states it is completing testing before releasing the weights. An independent pricing or licensing statement for Inkling-Small has not yet been officially documented, as the model is still
Features
| License | Not yet officially specified for Inkling-Small (flagship Inkling model uses Apache 2.0) |
| Platform | Planned for Tinker (Thinking Machines' fine-tuning platform) and likely Hugging Face upon full release |
| Price | No official standalone pricing available yet (model still in preview/testing, weights not released) |
| Release Date | Previewed on July 15, 2026; full model weights not yet released |