Inkling: Thinking Machines Lab Built a 975B MoE With Controllable Thinking Effort, Relative Position Embeddings, and Short Convolutions on the Residual Stream. The Self-Fine-Tuning Demo Is the Real Signal.
Inkling (thinkingmachines/Inkling, open-weights, July 15, 2026) is Thinking Machines Lab's first model release: a 975B-total/41B-active Mixture-of-Experts transformer with a 1M token context window, encoder-free multimodal inputs (audio as dMel spectrograms, vision as 40x40 pixel patches via 4-layer hMLP), controllable thinking effort (a float you pass at inference time), and 30M+ RL rollouts shaping its behavior.
