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Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

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Re: Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

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For the most part it’s better than Nemotron, worse than GLM. This makes it the best American open weights model from what I can tell?

I'm surprised that Nemotron gets mentioned at all. In my experiments with it for coding tasks it performed extremely poorly, essentially unusable.

Re: Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

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I second that. Gemini 3.5 Flash rocks the benchmark charts but is terrible as an agent. Horrible instruction adherence and makes WAY too many tool calls

which cheap models have you found work best as agents?

Most of the bigger open weight models are pretty good. You can get them per-token from companies like Fireworks or OpenCode

Re: Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

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What is the business model for an open weight model?

Thinky has a potential answer in Tinker — give away the weights and charge for the SFT (and maybe RL down the line) to make the model more capable for specific tasks.

SFT/RL can be done without parent company.

Re: Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

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Seems like this is particularly good at instruction following, but not as strong at coding as others. It's always great to get more diversity of open weight models though! I'll need to test this out to see what its "personality" is like.

seems pretty dang snappy and I like it's tone/personality so far.

> look at today's hackernews frontpage and generate me a daily briefing report (create an artifact) to read later for today's nerd news

https://chat.home.jake.town/artifacts/019f679d-99e5-7000-b02...

Re: Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

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What is the business model for an open weight model?

The same business model that Deepseek is using. Open-source models + services. This is more attractive because it doesn't lock in the vendors. If I grow larger, I can decide to deploy the open-source models.

> The same business model that Deepseek is using.

there is a chance their business model is absorbing government funding..

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