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Thinking Machinesopen weights

Open weights; 975B MoE; dropped Jul 15. On the board as live since 2026-07-15 — the watchers keep tracking it: lineup changes, pricing moves and deprecations all alert.

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Timeline

2026-07-15
Inkling verified live — from the vendor's own announcement and catalog listingverified

On the bench index

LMArena: 1,442LiveBench: 71.9SimpleBench: 50Vals AI: 29Artificial Analysis: 12.5AW Index: 4.3

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Coding leaderboard

#39 of 40 on the coding index, at 8.6 · combines LMArena · Coding, LiveBench · Coding, Vals Vibe Code Bench

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Open weights

#12 of 13 open-weights models on the Bench Index · thinkingmachines/Inkling on Hugging Face · 952B parameters · license Apache 2.0

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Where to use Inkling

21 providers list Inkling in the models.dev catalog (as of 2026-10-27), under the model ids shown below.

OpenRouterthinkingmachines/inkling · thinkingmachines/inkling:free
Vercel AI Gatewaythinkingmachines/inkling
Abacusthinkingmachines/Inkling
AI/ML APIthinkingmachines/inkling
Charm Hyperinkling
CommandCodethinkingmachines/inkling
Deep Infrathinkingmachines/Inkling
Eden AIdatabricks/databricks-inkling · deepinfra/thinkingmachines/Inkling · fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/inkling
Fireworks AIaccounts/fireworks/models/inkling
Hugging Facethinkingmachines/Inkling
Impossiblthinkingmachines/inkling
Kilo Gatewaythinkingmachines/inkling

Also listed by LLMTR, Merge Gateway, Modal, NanoGPT, Neon, Requesty, Thinking Machines, Together AI, Venice AI.

Listings cover the model family, so a provider may list a sibling tier under the same name. Check the id before you build on it.

Inkling: quick answers

Is Inkling out?

Yes. Inkling is live and has been since July 15, 2026.

When was Inkling released?

July 15, 2026.

Is Inkling good for coding?

On the ArtificialWatch coding index it scores 8.6, #39 of 40 ranked models. The index combines LMArena · Coding, LiveBench · Coding and Vals Vibe Code Bench, taking the median of each model's percentile across them.

Is Inkling open source?

It has open weights: the trained model is public on Hugging Face as thinkingmachines/Inkling, 952B parameters as Hugging Face counts them, license Apache 2.0. Among the 13 open-weights models the ArtificialWatch Bench Index ranks, it is #12.

Who makes Inkling?

Thinking Machines. ArtificialWatch also tracks Inkling-Small from Thinking Machines.

Where can I use Inkling?

21 providers list it in the models.dev catalog, including OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway, Abacus, AI/ML API and Charm Hyper. The exact model ids each one lists are on this page.

Is Inkling open weights?

Yes. Inkling is released with open weights.

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