Family Inkling · 975B parameters

Inkling

975B multimodal MoE (41B active) from Thinking Machines: vision, audio, and 1M tokens. Very demanding, ~566 GB of VRAM in Q4.

🇺🇸 Thinking Machines·License Apache 2.0·Context 1024k tokens·Output 2026-07-14← Catalog

01What it can do

Strengths
  • Full multimodal: image, audio, and text
  • Massive context up to 1M tokens
  • MoE: only 41B active out of 975B
  • Permissive Apache 2.0 license
Limitations to know
  • —Extremely heavy: ~566 GB of VRAM in Q4, reserved for multi-GPU servers
  • —Low local throughput (~5 tok/s in Q4)
  • —No Ollama tag — install via HuggingFace
Architecture
Multimodal MoE · 975B total parameters, 41B active · 1M-token context window
Training
Multimodal MoE model from Thinking Machines (vision, audio, text). Training details have not been published.
Ideal for
Multimodal reasoningAudio and visionVery long documents

04Install

Install Ollama for your OS. Check the model and its quantization before downloading. Start with 4096 tokens of context, then check placement with ollama ps. A command below is not proof that a test was run on your machine.

$# HuggingFace : thinkingmachines/Inkling
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First download: between 2 and 40 GB depending on the selected quantization. Plan for sufficient disk space; a stable connection is recommended. Subsequent launches are instant.

02Required memory

Approximate GPU VRAM required to run this model, including 4k tokens of context overhead. For a longer context, add ~1 GB per 8k-token increment.

Q4_K_M
The lightest, ~5% loss
566 GB
Q5_K_M
Good quality/size compromise
692 GB
Q8_0
Nearly indistinguishable from FP16
1043 GB
FP16
Full precision — server use
1950 GB
Fallback CPU · If you don't have a GPU, allow 1268 GB of RAM minimum to run this model at reduced speed.

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03Expected speed

Tokens generated per second in Q4_K_M, 4k context. Beyond 20 t/s, reading is comfortable. Below 10 t/s, that's just for testing.

Entry-level
~1.5t/s
GTX 1650, RX 6600, MBA M2 8GB
Mid-range
~2.5t/s
RTX 4060, 4070, MBP M3 Pro
High-end
~5t/s
RTX 4090, M4 Max, Radeon 7900