Inkling
Provider 
Founded 2025
Sells To —
Pricing Model —
Ownership —

Open-weights frontier language model family with a 1M-token context window and native text, image, and audio modalities.
Inkling is Thinking Machines Lab's first open-weights model, released in July 2026. It is a mixture-of-experts architecture with 975 billion total parameters and 41 billion active per token, a 1-million-token context window, and native support for text, image, and audio inputs.
Weights are distributed through Hugging Face, and the Inkling-Small variant (276B total, 12B active) targets smaller deployment budgets. Fine-tuning for both sizes is supported through the company's Tinker training API.
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Moonshot AI

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Alibaba Group

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| Attribute | Inkling | DeepSeek-V4 | Frontier Open-Weight Language Models | Kimi | Qwen | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Provider | ||||||
| Founded | 2025 | 2023 | 2024 | 2023 | 1999 | |
| Sells To | — | Enterprises | B2B, Enterprise, Government | Enterprises | Consumers, Enterprise, Enterprises, Small Business | |
| Pricing Model | — | Subscription | B2B | Subscription | Advertising, Subscription, Transactional | |
| Ownership | — | Private | Private | Private | Public |
Provider 
Founded 2025
Sells To —
Pricing Model —
Ownership —
Provider 
Founded 2023
Sells To Enterprises
Pricing Model Subscription
Ownership Private
Provider 
Founded 2024
Sells To B2B, Enterprise, Government
Pricing Model B2B
Ownership Private
Provider 
Founded 2023
Sells To Enterprises
Pricing Model Subscription
Ownership Private
Provider 
Founded 1999
Sells To Consumers, Enterprise, Enterprises, Small Business
Pricing Model Advertising, Subscription, Transactional
Ownership Public
Small Language Models
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