Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling: A 975B-Parameter Open-Weights Multimodal MoE With 41B Active Parameters And Controllable Thinking Effort

Summary

<p>Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling on July 15, 2026, its first model trained from scratch. The full weights ship under Apache 2.0. It is a 975B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 41B active parameters, a 1M-token context window, and native text, image, and audio input. The lab states plainly that Inkling is not the strongest model available, open or closed. It is positioned instead as a customization base, with controllable thinking effort as the practical differentiator.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/07/15/thinking-machines-lab-releases-inkling-a-975b-parameter-open-weights-multimodal-moe-with-41b-active-parameters-and-controllable-thinking-effort/">Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling: A 975B-Parameter Open-Weights Multimodal MoE With 41B Active Parameters And Controllable Thinking Effort</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.marktechpost.com">MarkTechPost</a>.</p>