[AINews] Thinky's Inkling: 975B-A41B multimodal, new best American Apache 2.0 open model (with Inkling-Small, 276B-A12B)
Thinky has released Inkling, a multimodal model with a large total parameter count and a smaller variant, Inkling-Small. The source explicitly states that Inkling is "the new best American Apache 2.0 open model," positioning it as a leading open-weight model from an American organization under the permissive Apache 2.0 license. The models are multimodal, though the specific modalities are not detailed in the excerpt. The release was announced on July 16, 2026, via the Latent Space newsletter. No benchmark scores, pricing, or deployment details are provided in the source text.
// why it matters
Inkling offers a competitive open-source multimodal model under Apache 2.0, giving developers a new high-performance option.