Thinking Machines drops a 12B-active model that outsmarts its predecessor
Thinking Machines just launched Inkling-Small, an open-weights MoE model with 276B total parameters and only 12B active. Operating at roughly a quarter of the compute cost, it actually edges out the flagship Inkling across reasoning and agentic coding benchmarks like Humanity's Last Exam. Why it matters: You get multimodal reasoning and a 1M context window without the heavyweight inference tax.