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Thinking Machines debuts Inkling Small open source AI model nearing performance of predecessor at about 1/4 size

VentureBeat AI·July 31, 2026·1 min read
Thinking Machines debuts Inkling Small open source AI model nearing performance of predecessor at about 1/4 size

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Thinking Machines has launched Inkling Small, an open source AI model that is roughly a quarter the size of its predecessor while maintaining similar performance levels. The new 276-billion-parameter model excels in several benchmarks and is available under a permissive Apache 2.0 license.

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Just two weeks after Thinking Machines released Inkling, its first open source AI language model, the well-funded startup led by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati today introduced Inkling-Small without sacrificing much of any performance — and in fact, the new model surpasses its larger predecessor on several benchmarks. Inkling Small is a 276-billion-parameter multimodal reasoning model with a permissive Apache 2.0 license that comes within a single point of its larger sibling

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