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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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Thinking Machines Lab will release Inkling-Small, a 276B (12B active) model, once testing on it is complete.
A smaller companion model, Inkling-Small, is promised but withheld pending further testing. ✦ AI generated
Simon Willison · Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-07-16 · original ↗
They're also promising Inkling-Small, a 276B (12B active) model, but that's still being tested and the weights will be released "once that work is complete".
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