Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling: A 975B-Parameter Open-Weights Multimodal MoE With 41B Active Parameters And Controllable Thinking Effort

Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling on July 15, 2026, its first model trained from scratch. The full weights ship under Apache 2.0. It is a 975B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 41B active parameters, a 1M-token context window, and native text, image, and audio input. The lab states plainly that Inkling is not the strongest model available, open or closed. It is positioned instead as a customization base, with controllable thinking effort as the practical differentiator.