Thinkingmachines | Inkling Small
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.
Fair
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
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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Recent Tests
| Date | Score | Version | Tier 1 (Task) | Tier 2 (Gospel) | Tier 3 (Worldview) | Trust Tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8/18/2026 | 46.0 | 1.0.0 | 50.5 | 21.7 | 63.3 | automated |