Thinking Machines Releases Inkling-Small: 276B Total / 12B Active, 1M Context, 80.2% on SWE-Bench Verified
Thinking Machines Lab (surfaced via r/LocalLLaMA, 465 upvotes / 168 comments)·high signal
Thinking Machines Lab published Inkling-Small on July 30 — 276B total parameters with only 12B active, a 1M-token context window, and open weights on Hugging Face. It scores 31.6% on Humanity's Last Exam, 80.2% on SWE-Bench Verified and 82.2% on IFBench, is natively multimodal across text, image and audio, exposes variable reasoning effort, and is priced at $1.20 per 1M output tokens with fine-tuning support on Tinker. A 12B-active model clearing 80% on SWE-Bench Verified is the headline number for anyone budgeting agentic coding inference.