Thinking Machines
Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free)
thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free
Inkling Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 12B active parameters out of 276B total. It is positioned as the smaller, more efficient member of the Inkling family and is suited for reasoning, coding, agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, instruction following, and multilingual conversation.
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Context
1,048,576
tokens
Max output
262,144
25% of the context window
Parameters
265,956,439,090
Model facts
Author
Thinking Machines
Tokenizer
Other
Modality
Text + Image + Audio -> Text
License
Apache-2.0
Created
Jul 30, 2026
Hugging Face
thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small
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Capability scores
Better than 57% of models compared
Better than 55% of models compared
Better than 63% of models compared