19 August 2026

Thinking Machines releases open-source AI model Inkling

• Thinking Machines, a Philippine AI company, released Inkling, its first model built entirely by the company rather than adapted from others.
• The model is freely available on Hugging Face, a repository where developers share AI models, under Apache 2.0 license allowing commercial use.
• Inkling includes adjustable settings for how much computational effort the model applies to different tasks, and can process multiple types of input like text and images.

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TLDR AITLDR editorial team

Thinking Machines released Inkling, its first model trained from scratch, with weights available on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0 license. The article details the architectural choices including position encoding, multimodal input handling, and thinking effort settings.