Inkling does in fact use distillation from open weights and underperforms GLM 5.2 on TerminalBench-style evals, contradicting hype that it was trained entirely without distillation.

JJitsev disputes the narrative that Inkling is uniquely 'pure' among open-weight models, pointing out it does use distillation and still lags GLM 5.2 on terminal/agentic benchmarks. ✦ AI generated

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JJitsev pushed back on hype around 'only open-weight model trained without distilling,' saying Inkling uses distillation from open weights and underperforms GLM 5.2 on TerminalBench-style evals.

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