Inkling, mentioned 10 times across podcast episodes and expert conversations analyzed by Sonic.
An AlphaSense study on real-world financial analysis tasks tested GPT-5.6 Sol, Opus 4.8, Opus 5, Sonnet 5, Haiku 4.5, QIMI K3, GLM 5.2, Inkling, and Gemma 4.
In an AlphaSense study, Gemma 4 and Inkling performed at a similar quality level to GLM 5.2 but at less than one-fifth of the cost.
Thinking Machines plans to release a smaller version of its Inkling model, at about 25% of the parameter count, which is expected to have very good performance.