Thinking Machines · open weights
Inkling Small
A smaller Inkling checkpoint aimed at bringing much of the family’s capability into a more practical serving envelope.
- Organisation
- Thinking Machines
- Weights published
- Licence
- Apache 2.0
- Size
- 276B total / 12B active MoE
- Modalities
- textimageaudio
- Comparison catalog
- Not in the priced catalog yet
Practical fit
The better first experiment for teams that want to test the family without starting with the full checkpoint.
Deployment note
Smaller does not mean laptop-sized; estimate memory and throughput from the actual release artefacts.
Where to go next
- Inkling Small has no priced API row in the comparison catalog yet, so there are no side-by-side figures for it. Other Thinking Machines models that are catalogued: Thinking Machines Inkling, Inkling-Small.
- Size the hardware to run it locally
- Local and open-source AI guide
- Primary source: Inkling Small model card