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Inkling debuts at 41 on the Intelligence Index, making it the leading U.S. open-weights release, ahead of Nemotron 3 Ultra (38), Gemma 4 31B (29), and gpt-oss-120b (24).
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The author cannot confirm DeepSeek's plans but considers an open-weights release likely because weights were released for the April DeepSeek-V4-Pro and July DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 models. ✦ AI generated
the author · Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-08-12 · original ↗
I haven't been able to confirm if they plan to release the open weights, but given the weights are available for both April's deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro and July's deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 it seems likely.
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