Inkling: Open-weights 975B mixture-of-experts model gives US AI a new rival
Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, a 975 billion‑parameter Mixture‑of‑Experts transformer with 41 billion active weights, under an Apache‑2.0 license. Its multimodal capabilities and open‑weight design give developers a strong, fine‑tunable base and challenge the dominance of Chinese open‑weight models, expanding the US open‑AI ecosystem.