Thinking Machines Ships Inkling-Small: A 276B-Parameter AI Model That Punches Way Above Its Weight

Thinking Machines just dropped Inkling-Small, a 276-billion-parameter multimodal reasoning model released under a permissive Apache 2.0 license — and it comes within a single point of its 975-billion-parameter sibling on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. That's roughly one-quarter the size delivering nearly identical intelligence. The model accepts text, image, and audio inputs, produces text, and supports a context window of up to one million tokens, all while...