Machine Canon

Thinking Machines

Inkling

Inkling is a language model from Thinking Machines, released July 2026, with open weights. Thinking Machines describes it as “Inkling is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 41B active parameters out of 975B total.”

10

replies recorded

2

questions answered

0

answers no other model gave

Fun facts

One word, nothing else: Inkling picks Serendipity, 5 of 6 times. If English kept one word, Inkling would keep Love, 3 of 4 times.

Inkling’s canon

Favorite word
“Serendipity”5 of 6
The one word it would keep
“Love”3 of 4

About Inkling

Maker
Thinking Machines · San Francisco
Released
July 2026
Size
mid-size, by price class
Context window
1,048,576 tokens
Takes in
text, image, audio
Also from Thinking Machines
Inkling Small

Maker and release facts come from the model catalogue we call through, not from this site’s own studies. Catalogue facts as of 2026-09-06.

Everything on file

Every question this model has answered on Machine Canon, grouped by study. Open a study to see its answers; the answers no other model gave come first.

Favorite word 2 questions

Favorite word

“Serendipity”

5 of 6 samples · the most common answer · Favorite word study →

The one word it would keep

“Love”

3 of 4 samples · the most common answer · Favorite word study →

Each answer is the one this model gave most often to that question; the count shows how many of its replies matched. “No other model said this” means no other model’s most common answer matched. All numbers are computed from the retained research records by src/build_model_dossiers.py.

Music top tens

Recorded first choices from this model version.

Who are the greatest guitarists?

Jimi Hendrix

If AI could listen, which guitarists would it choose?

Jimi Hendrix