{"slug": "thinking-machines-lab-releases-inkling-a-975b-parameter-open-weights-multimodal", "title": "Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling: A 975B-Parameter Open-Weights Multimodal MoE With 41B Active Parameters And Controllable Thinking Effort", "summary": "Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling on July 15, 2026, a 975B-parameter open-weights multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model with 41B active parameters, a 1M-token context window, and controllable thinking effort. The model, trained from scratch and released under Apache 2.0, is positioned as a customization base rather than a top-performing model.", "body_md": "Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling on July 15, 2026, its first model trained from scratch. The full weights ship under Apache 2.0. It is a 975B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 41B active parameters, a 1M-token context window, and native text, image, and audio input. The lab states plainly that Inkling is not the strongest model available, open or closed. It is positioned instead as a customization base, with controllable thinking effort as the practical differentiator.\n\nThe post [Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling: A 975B-Parameter Open-Weights Multimodal MoE With 41B Active Parameters And Controllable Thinking Effort](https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/07/15/thinking-machines-lab-releases-inkling-a-975b-parameter-open-weights-multimodal-moe-with-41b-active-parameters-and-controllable-thinking-effort/) appeared first on [MarkTechPost](https://www.marktechpost.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/thinking-machines-lab-releases-inkling-a-975b-parameter-open-weights-multimodal", "canonical_source": "https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/07/15/thinking-machines-lab-releases-inkling-a-975b-parameter-open-weights-multimodal-moe-with-41b-active-parameters-and-controllable-thinking-effort/", "published_at": "2026-07-15 23:48:58+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-16 00:13:53.847079+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-products", "ai-research", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Thinking Machines Lab", "Inkling"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/thinking-machines-lab-releases-inkling-a-975b-parameter-open-weights-multimodal", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/thinking-machines-lab-releases-inkling-a-975b-parameter-open-weights-multimodal.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/thinking-machines-lab-releases-inkling-a-975b-parameter-open-weights-multimodal.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/thinking-machines-lab-releases-inkling-a-975b-parameter-open-weights-multimodal.jsonld"}}