Inkling is an AI model developed by Thinking Machines (United States), first published in July 2026. It works in the language, multimodal, audio and 2 more domain, on tasks such as language modeling/generation and chat.
Training it took an estimated 1.8×10²⁴ FLOP of compute. The model has 975,000,000,000 parameters. It was trained on roughly 45T datapoints. Training ran on NVIDIA GB300 (Blackwell Ultra).
Access: Open weights (unrestricted). Its weights are openly available. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as likely.