The AI Daily Brief · Thursday, July 16, 2026
Thinking Machines Lab (TML) has released its first large language model, Inkling, a 975 billion parameter model with multimodal capabilities. While some users have criticized its performance and perceived inaccuracies, others believe it shows promise for future development and fine-tuning.
“Thinking Machines Lab has released their first large language model. Called Inkling, the model is built on a mixture of experts architecture with 975 billion total parameters and 41 billion active parameters.”
“Inkling is not the strongest overall model available today, open or closed. Instead, a combination of qualities makes it a good open weight space for customization, multimodal capabilities, efficient thinking, and availability on Tinker for fine tuning.”
“Benchmarks don't look that great. It's basically another Kimmy K 2.6 and loses to all closed models and GLM 5.2 and Fable 5.”
“This is going to be an important model in a few years. TML's talent, know how, funding and compute, they will soon reach opus if not Fable 5 level.”