thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small

image-text-to-text model by thinkingmachines

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BF16 | NVFP4 | Playground | Tinker Cookbook | Acceptable Use Inkling-Small is a general-purpose multimodal model that accepts text, image and audio inputs and generates text outputs. It is intended for use in English and other languages, and across multiple coding languages. The model is designed to be used by developers building AI-powered applications, including agentic and tool-use systems, coding assistants, chatbots, and retrieval-augmented generation systems, and is suitable for general-purpose conversational use, instruction-following, and other natural language and multimodal tasks. It is released with open weights to support research, fine-tuning and integration into third-party products by downstream developers. Languages: English, with general multilingual capabilities across other languages. Try Inkling-Small on the Tinker Playground or access via API using the Tinker Cookbook. Inkling-Small supports local deployment using the following open-source libraries: API access is also available through third party inference providers. Multimodal autoregressive transformer A 42-layer decoder-only transformer with…

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  1. Inkling
  2. 1. General Information
  3. 2. Getting Started
  4. 3. Model Properties
  5. Model type
  6. Architecture type
  7. Parameters
  8. Numerics support
  9. Input modalities
  10. Output modalities
  11. 4. Training
  12. 5. Evaluations

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thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small is a image-text-to-text model repository published by thinkingmachines on Hugging Face. The source reports the transformers library.

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Task
image-text-to-text
Library
transformers
Recent downloads (30 days)
622,716
Cumulative likes
416
Hugging Face trending score
5
Reported safetensors parameters
265,956,439,090
Architecture
InklingForConditionalGeneration
License
apache-2.0
Access
Not gated by Hugging Face
Created
2026-07-27T22:33:44.000Z
Last modified
2026-07-31T00:39:44.000Z

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