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Inkling-Small

ling family · launched 2026-07-30

MultimodalReasoningToolsOpen weights
AITopic score46.7Not yet ranked

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...

Evidence coverage5%1 evaluations · 1 institutions
Context / maximum output524.3k / 262.1ktokens
Cache / input / output$0.1 · $0.45 · $1.2USD per million tokens
Value / freshness54.0 / 78relative value · release freshness
Product profile

What this model supports

Inputtext, image, audio
Outputtext
Knowledge cutoffNot disclosed
WeightsOpen weights
Capability profile

Strengths by domain

Coding—0 public results
Research & reasoning—0 public results
Professional work—0 public results
Knowledge & instruction—0 public results
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Human preference & indices2 results

AA IndexArtificial Analysis61.17 indexReading 46.7

Imported from Artificial Analysis. The published 0–100 score is used directly; it is not z-score normalized.

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Arena TextLMArena1,414.3 EloReading 46.7

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