Thinking Machines just dropped Inkling, their first open-weights model, and it’s a multimodal Mixture-of-Experts with “controllable reasoning effort.”
I’m interested less in the architecture and more in what happens when everyone can fine-tune this on their own data and then ship it as “their” model. The credit, liability, and eval story gets messy fast. The controllable reasoning knob sounds great until you imagine it as a product setting people crank down to save money, then blame the model when it misses the edge cases.
Curious what people think: does open-weights push us toward better transparency, or just faster commoditization with worse accountability?
Source: Inkling: Our open-weights model - Thinking Machines Lab
