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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 praises the release as competitive with Chinese open-weight models and a good new option alongside Nemotron and Gemma 4. ✦ AI generated

Simon Willison · Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-07-16 · original ↗

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There's a lot to like about this release. It's Apache-2.0 licensed, and looks competitive with the open weight models coming out of China - it's good to see the US open weights ecosystem gain a new viable contender to join NVIDIA Nemotron and Gemma 4.

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✳ Gemma 4 ✳ NVIDIA Nemotron

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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 · Latent Space · conf 65%

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Inkling is a Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 975B total parameters and 41B active, an Apache-2.0 licensed multimodal model trained on 45 trillion tokens of text, images, audio and video.Simon Willison · Simon Willison's Weblog · conf 60%