# Inkling: what I've logged

> Inkling comes up in 2 posts of my AI log, from July 2026 to July 2026, and each item below links to the primary source. The sources come from Thinking Machines Lab, filed under robotics, open weights and image, video, world.

## Items

1. **Inkling-Small** (Thinking Machines Lab, 27 Jul 2026): The smaller Inkling is 276B total and 12B active, takes text, image and audio, and ships in BF16 and NVFP4 under Apache 2.0. [Primary source](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/inkling-small/) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-07-27-week-in-ai#item-4)
2. **Inkling** (Thinking Machines Lab, 13 Jul 2026): The lab's first model is Apache 2.0, 975B total and 41B active parameters, with a 1M-token window and text, image and audio input. [Primary source](https://huggingface.co/thinkingmachines/Inkling) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-07-13-week-in-ai#item-3)

## Posts

- 2026-07-27 [Gemini Robotics 2, plus Korean labs open 700B-class models](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-07-27-week-in-ai)
- 2026-07-13 [Grok 4.5 lands, Kimi K3 and Inkling open up huge models](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-07-13-week-in-ai)

Canonical: https://heyaliasif.com/ai/topics/inkling