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Glowing cobalt crystalline AI model core floating above a dark studio surface

AI Tools · Jul 19, 2026 · 12 min read

Inkling, Thinking Machines' 975B open-weights model: adopt it or wait in 2026?

Thinking Machines shipped Inkling, a 975B open-weights model with 41B active, 1M context and native audio and vision. Here are the benchmarks against Kimi, DeepSeek and the closed frontier, the real cost, and who should

Manu Shukla

#inkling #thinking-machines #open-weight models

Isometric illustration comparing a rack of GPU servers against a cloud API endpoint on a balance scale

AI & Cloud Infrastructure · Jul 17, 2026 · 14 min read

Inkling's 975B open weights: what self-hosting really costs vs the API in 2026

Thinking Machines released Inkling on 15 July 2026 under Apache 2.0: 975B parameters, 41B active. We priced the GPUs against the Tinker API using AWS and vendor figures, and the break-even is brutal.

Manu Shukla

#inkling #open weights #GPU cost