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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).
Artificial Analysis's independent benchmark places Inkling at the top of U.S. open-weight models on its Intelligence Index, ahead of Nemotron 3 Ultra, Gemma 4 31B, and gpt-oss-120b. ✦ AI generated
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Artificial Analysis said Inkling debuts at 41 on the Intelligence Index, making it the leading U.S. open-weights release and ahead of Nemotron 3 Ultra (38), Gemma 4 31B (29), and gpt-oss-120b (24).
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- ·Inkling debuts at 41 on Intelligence Index
- ·Leading U.S. open-weights release, per Artificial Analysis
- ·Surpasses Nemotron 3 Ultra, Gemma 4 31B, gpt-oss-120b
- ·Independent benchmark validates Inkling's performance claims
- ·Gap to nearest rival (Nemotron 3 Ultra) is 3 points
- ·Widest gap vs gpt-oss-120b: 17 points
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extends → Inkling is Thinking Machines Lab's first general model: fully open-weight, 975B total parameters, natively multimodal, and available on Tinker, Hugging Face, and partner platforms.Soumith Chintala · Latent Spacesupports → Inkling is a clear step up from Nemotron Ultra and the new best American open model, though still a bit behind GLM 5.2 on agentic benchmarks and Kimi K2.6 on multimodal tasks.Nathan Lambert · Latent Spacesupports → Inkling is a welcome, competitive addition to the US open-weights ecosystem, being Apache-2.0 licensed and comparable to open-weight models coming out of China, joining NVIDIA Nemotron and Gemma 4 as viable contenders.Simon Willison · Simon Willison's Webloggives example → Anthropic and OpenAI are consolidating a closed-model duopoly that concentrates power and pricing leverage, and open weight models are the only real counterweight available to startups, schools, and enterprises.Kevin Xu (Interconnected, co-author) · Interconnects