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Thinking Machines launches Inkling as a customizable open-weights model

The multimodal foundation model accepts text, image, and audio inputs and is designed to be adapted through the company’s Tinker fine-tuning platform.

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What happened

Thinking Machines has released Inkling, an Apache 2.0 open-weights multimodal foundation model positioned as an efficient, customizable base rather than the strongest model overall.

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The multimodal foundation model accepts text, image, and audio inputs and is designed to be adapted through the company’s Tinker fine-tuning platform.

Why this matters
Inkling tests a different product thesis: a model’s value can come from how effectively teams can adapt it, not only from its position on general-purpose benchmarks.
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  • Models & products
  • Open weights
  • Fine-tuning

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