Inkling-Small activates 12B of 276B parameters

Thinking Machines released Inkling-Small, an open-weights multimodal model with 276 billion total parameters but 12 billion active per token, according to the lab’s technical release. It accepts text, images, and audio, offers up to a 1-million-token context window, and scored 80.2% on the lab’s SWE-bench Verified run; for builders tracking how open weights turn model efficiency into a cost weapon, the 23-to-1 total-to-active ratio is another reason to evaluate deployed compute rather than headline parameter count.