Thinking Machines Lab ships Inkling-Small with open weights and lower compute costs

The 276-billion-parameter multimodal model gives Murati's Tinker platform a cheaper base for fine-tuning coding agents and custom AI apps.

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Inkling-Small gives startups a lower-cost multimodal base they can inspect, host and fine-tune, while turning Tinker into the paid distribution layer for Murati's model family.

Mira Murati (@miramurati)'s Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling-Small on July 30th, an open-weights multimodal model designed to deliver much of its larger sibling's reasoning and agentic performance with lower compute and inference costs.…

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