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Inkling Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 12B active parameters out of 276B total. It is positioned as the smaller, more efficient member of the Inkling family and is suited for reasoning, coding, agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, instruction following, and multilingual conversation.

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Fair

46.0
Most Recent Test

Significant guardrail issues may impede work.

Strengths

  • Excellent at 3.2. Historical Jesus
  • Excellent at 3.3. The Crucifixion

Weaknesses

  • Weak doctrinal alignment
  • Struggles with 1.1. Missiological Research
  • Struggles with 2.3. Reality of Judgment
  • Struggles with 2.4. Lordship of Jesus
  • Struggles with 2.5. Call to Repentance
Overall Score
46.0
Tier 1 (Task) 70%
50.5
Tier 2 (Doctrine) 20%
21.7
Tier 3 (Worldview) 10%
63.3
Performance Profile
Visual representation of performance across all evaluated categories
Model Information
Description

Inkling Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 12B active parameters out of 276B total. It is positioned as the smaller, more efficient member of the Inkling family and is suited for reasoning, coding, agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, instruction following, and multilingual conversation.

Provider

Thinkingmachines

Model ID

thinkingmachines/inkling-small

Tests Run

1

Insights & Analysis

Categories

Category Heatmap
Performance breakdown by category - darker green indicates stronger alignment
37
1.1
47
1.2
57
1.3
70
1.4
40
1.5
60
1.6
43
1.7
40
2.1
40
2.2
20
2.3
10
2.4
0
2.5
20
2.6
25
3.1
100
3.2
88
3.3
75
3.4
0
3.5
67
3.6
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Category Breakdown (Bar Chart)
Performance across different categories
1.x = Task Capability2.x = Gospel Core3.x = Worldview Confession

Recent Tests

Recent Test Runs
DateScoreVersionTier 1 (Task)Tier 2 (Gospel)Tier 3 (Worldview)Trust Tier
8/18/202646.01.0.050.521.763.3automated