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#16 in Reasoning-ModelleThinking Machines · thinking · 2× · tolest 29. Aug. 2026
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Inkling is the first publicly released AI model from Thinking Machines Lab (the startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati), launched on July 15, 2026. It is an Open-Weight Mixture-of-Experts Reasoning model with 975 billion total parameters (41 billion active) that operates natively multimodal (text, image, audio) and is accessible via the Tinker platform as well as APIs from third-party providers. The model achieves a score of 41 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, positioning itself as a competent, though not leading Open-Weight model compared to closed Frontier systems.
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Features
| Key Benchmark (%) | 97.1% on AIME 2026; 87.2% on GPQA Diamond; 77.6% on SWE-bench Verified |
| Context Window (Tokens) | 1,048,576 tokens (1M) |
| License | Apache 2.0 (open weight, commercial use allowed) |
| Multimodality | Yes – text, image, and audio input, text output |
| Platform | API via Thinking Machines (Tinker) and third-party providers such as DeepInfra, Together, Baseten; weights via Hugging Face |
| Price per 1M Tokens | $1.00 input / $4.05 output (xhigh reasoning); cache read $0.16 |
| Release Date | July 15, 2026 |