Thinking Machines Lab releases Inkling, an open-source model trained on video and audio
TL;DR
Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open source model trained to understand video and audio.
What changed
Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling as its first open source model with 975 billion parameters. The model was trained to understand video and audio. Developers and vibe builders can now work with this release directly.
Why it matters
Inkling helps Thinking Machines Lab establish itself among competitors like Anthropic and OpenAI through its scale of 975 billion parameters. Basic users benefit from improved handling of video and audio in daily tools. Vibe builders gain access to multimodal capabilities for their creative projects.
What to watch for
Compare Inkling against alternatives like models from OpenAI on video and audio tasks. Developers should verify by downloading the open source weights and testing them on sample clips.
Who this matters for
- Vibe Builders: Download the open source weights to run multimodal video and audio generation locally.
Harsh’s take
Thinking Machines Lab is entering the heavyweight division with a massive 975-billion-parameter model. Releasing Inkling as an open-source model is a direct challenge to the closed-source dominance of OpenAI and Anthropic, giving builders raw multimodal power without API gatekeepers. To make this practical, you need serious local compute or a cloud provider ready to host a model of this scale. Test Inkling on complex video-to-audio alignment tasks to see if the open-source reality matches the massive parameter hype.
by Harsh Desai
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