Inkling Small from Thinking Machines is now available on AI Gateway
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Jerilyn Zheng
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Terms in this piece · Glossary
multimodal — A model that works with more than text — reading images, audio, or video, and sometimes generating them too.
mixture-of-experts — A model built from many specialist sub-networks where only a few activate per token, giving big-model capability at small-model running cost.
context window — The maximum amount of text a model can consider at once — its working memory for the current conversation or task.
Why it matters
Inkling Small lands on AI Gateway as an open-weights multimodalA model that works with more than text — reading images, audio, or video, and sometimes generating them too.Full definition →mixture-of-expertsA model built from many specialist sub-networks where only a few activate per token, giving big-model capability at small-model running cost.Full definition → with 1M context windowThe maximum amount of text a model can consider at once — its working memory for the current conversation or task.Full definition → and adjustable reasoning effort, giving a cheaper option for agentic coding and tool-use workflows without markup or a platform fee.
