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Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

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Re: Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

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Very nice, multi modal, largest open weight model that supports audio. Would be interesting to see how good the audio capability is. If you want to run locally, checkout https://github.com/danielhanchen/llama.cpp/tree/add-inkling https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/inkling https://huggingface.co/unsloth/inkling-GGUF https://huggingface.co/unsloth/inkling-NVFP4 This supposedly is better than KimiK2.7, as much hype as GLM5.…

Not to mention - it is American. This is the first competitive non-Chinese open weights model since what, Llama 3?

Mistral has released some very good, very useful open models. It's European, that's also non-Chinese.

Re: Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

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post #119

Very nice, multi modal, largest open weight model that supports audio. Would be interesting to see how good the audio capability is. If you want to run locally, checkout https://github.com/danielhanchen/llama.cpp/tree/add-inkling https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/inkling https://huggingface.co/unsloth/inkling-GGUF https://huggingface.co/unsloth/inkling-NVFP4 This supposedly is better than KimiK2.7, as much hype as GLM5.…

Not to mention - it is American. This is the first competitive non-Chinese open weights model since what, Llama 3?

"Competitive" is doing a lot of work there — it debuts at #41 on the AA index and the post itself calls it not the strongest overall. Mistral and Cohere's North are also non-Chinese open weights, so Llama 3 wasn't the last.

Re: Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

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How does this compare with Grok 4.5, Fable, GPT 5.6 etc I can use them for a few bucks a month, whats the benefit of using this model? is it more intelligent, faster, cheaper (and no I don't want to spin-up my own mini datacenter to run it 'in house') I want to install a harness/app/visit web page auth and start as 99% of people using AI want to do.

Re: Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If they somehow make it approach Fable in capability, I’ll be quite surprised!

Not even GPT 5.6 approaches it, why would DeepSeek with less investment?

Well Chinnese companies are way more efficient, Deepseek did manage to get quite far with a relatively tiny number of staff and limited funding. Then you have companies like Meta which suck pretty much at everything they (excluding their core business) regardless of how much money they throw at it.

Re: Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

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America needs its own DeepSeek or Z.ai, a lot of people (myself included) root for open chinese models to win because they have no other choice. Thinking Machines might be it.

I’m trying to be charitable but your comment reads as “China bad” propaganda to me. Who cares that DeepSeek and Z.ai are Chinese companies?

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Re: Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

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Very nice, multi modal, largest open weight model that supports audio. Would be interesting to see how good the audio capability is. If you want to run locally, checkout https://github.com/danielhanchen/llama.cpp/tree/add-inkling https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/inkling https://huggingface.co/unsloth/inkling-GGUF https://huggingface.co/unsloth/inkling-NVFP4 This supposedly is better than KimiK2.7, as much hype as GLM5.…

> This supposedly is better than KimiK2.7

How can you tell?

I just looked at the benchmarks and was kinda disappointed that it seems to be between KimiK2.6 and KimiK2.7 on most of the benchmarks.

Do you refer to what it feels like to use the model? Or are there other benchmarks I haven't seen?

Re: Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

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post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to mention - it is American. This is the first competitive non-Chinese open weights model since what, Llama 3?

What does it mean, if it is American? Is it censored or will it eventually stop working in Middle Eastern countries? Or is it biased towards powerful political lobby group interests? When weights are open I usually don't care where is it from, as long as it is working for my use cases well

There's a lot of Sinophobia in the tech world, and the AI race seems to be magnifying that. With very little evidence to back it up, I might add - we've had regular releases of quality open-weight models from Chinese firms, and no sign they are more censored/ideological, than, say, Grok

Re: Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

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Raised 2 billion dollars at a 12 billion valuation and debuts at 41 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, while KIMI and DeepSeek will release Fable-class models this week. What a joke.

I think your comments might be overly negative. Would you expect the first model from an organization to top the chart? It's a process, I think they did pretty good. They have enough resources to continue improving on it
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