AI Model Profile · Thinking Machines
Inkling
Inkling is an AI model developed by Thinking Machines (United States), released July 15, 2026. It has approximately 975B parameters. It was trained on about 1.1×1025 FLOP of compute. Its weights are openly released.
Open weights · Epoch confidence: Likely · Source: Epoch AI · Updated 2026-10-19
Specifications
| Developer | Thinking Machines |
| Country | United States |
| Released | July 15, 2026 |
| Domain | Language,Multimodal,Audio,Video,Vision |
| Parameters | 975B |
| Training compute | 1.1×1025 FLOP |
| Training hardware | NVIDIA GB300 (Blackwell Ultra) |
| Weights | Open |
| Access | Open weights (unrestricted) |
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Benchmarks
Performance on Epoch AI's reproducible evaluations (higher is better; scores are the best across scorers). These are independent runs, not developer-reported numbers.
Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub. GPQA Diamond = graduate-level science Q&A; SWE-Bench Verified = real software-engineering tasks; FrontierMath = research-level maths; MATH Level 5 = hardest competition maths; AIME = olympiad maths; SimpleQA = factual accuracy.
Frequently asked
- Who developed Inkling?
- Inkling was developed by Thinking Machines (United States) and released on July 15, 2026.
- How big is Inkling?
- Inkling has approximately 975B parameters and was trained on about 1.1×10^25 FLOP of compute. Source: Epoch AI.
- Is Inkling open source?
- Inkling is released with open weights (Yes), meaning its trained parameters are publicly available.
- How does Inkling perform on benchmarks?
- On Epoch AI's evaluations, Inkling scores 40.3% on SimpleQA, 88.3% on GPQA Diamond, 88.9% on AIME (OTIS Mock). Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub.
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