Thinking Machines
Thinking Machines: Inkling (free)
thinkingmachines/inkling:free
Inkling is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 41B active parameters out of 975B total. It is designed for general-purpose reasoning, coding, agentic and tool-use systems, retrieval-augmented generation, instruction following, and multilingual conversational applications. Its native image and audio understanding supports multimodal analysis alongside text.
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tokens
Limits
Context
1,048,576
tokens
Max output
262,144
25% of the context window
Parameters
952,377,623,626
Model facts
Author
Thinking Machines
Tokenizer
Other
Modality
Text + Image + Audio -> Text
License
Apache-2.0
Created
Jul 17, 2026
Hugging Face
thinkingmachines/Inkling
Reasoning
Publication status
Modalities
Generation controls
Capability scores
Better than 54% of models compared
Better than 51% of models compared
Better than 62% of models compared
Agent tasks
Category performance
1187 Elo
48.6% win
Creative tasks
Category performance
1225 Elo
44.5% win
1207 Elo
42.3% win
1199 Elo
40.2% win
1162 Elo
40.0% win
1169 Elo
38.2% win
1161 Elo
37.7% win
1112 Elo
35.0% win
1094 Elo
33.9% win