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Inkling: America's Largest Open-Weight Model Ships Apache 2.0

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What changed on 15 July Thinking Machines Lab — the research company founded by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati — released Inkling on 15 July 2026. It is the lab's first production model and its first open-weights model, trained from scratch rather than adapted from anything that came before. It did not arrive as a preview, a waitlist or a promise of weights to follow: the full weights went up on Hugging Face on day one, under the Apache 2.0 licence, with same-day fine-tuning available on the company's own Tinker platform. The specifications below come from the lab's own announcement post. 975 billion total parameters in a mixture-of-experts architecture, with 41 billion active per token. One million tokens of context, multimodal, with native reasoning across text,…


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