Inkling-Small

Inkling-Small

Thinking Machines Lab
MiMo-V2.5

MiMo-V2.5

Xiaomi Technology
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About

Inkling-Small is an efficient model that offers performance comparable to Inkling at a quarter of its size. It is a Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 276 billion total parameters and 12 billion active parameters, trained on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems. It supports native reasoning across text, images, and audio, variable thinking effort, and context windows of up to one million tokens. Users adjust reasoning effort from minimal to extra high to balance performance and compute. Improved pre-training data, post-training with on-policy distillation from Inkling, and extended agentic coding reinforcement learning helped Inkling-Small surpass its larger counterpart on reasoning and coding benchmarks. It performs well in coding and tool-use harnesses, exceeds 80% on SWE-bench Verified, and combines strong reasoning with efficient output. Its encoder-free multimodal architecture processes audio as dMel spectrograms and images as 40-by-40-pixel patches alongside text tokens.

About

Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 is an advanced open-source AI model designed to combine strong agentic capabilities with native multimodal understanding. It can process and reason across text, images, and audio within a single unified system. The model uses a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture with hundreds of billions of parameters for efficient performance. It supports an extended context window of up to one million tokens, enabling long and complex workflows. MiMo-V2.5 is built to handle tasks such as coding, reasoning, and multimodal analysis with high accuracy. It incorporates dedicated visual and audio encoders to enhance perception and cross-modal reasoning. The model demonstrates strong benchmark performance across coding, reasoning, and multimodal tasks. By combining multimodality, efficiency, and agentic intelligence, MiMo-V2.5 advances the capabilities of open-source AI systems.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

Developers, AI agent builders, software engineering teams, research teams, enterprise AI teams, multimodal application developers, coding assistant builders, tool-use workflow teams, and organizations that need efficient reasoning, long-context processing, text-image-audio understanding, adjustable thinking effort, coding performance, and scalable Mixture-of-Experts inference

Audience

Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 is ideal for developers, researchers, and organizations building AI applications that require multimodal understanding, long-context reasoning, and advanced agentic capabilities

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

$0.30 per million input tokens
$0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

No information available.
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
features 4.0 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 0.0 / 5
ease 0.0 / 5
features 0.0 / 5
design 0.0 / 5
support 0.0 / 5

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Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • Inkling-Small is really interesting from a developer’s point of view because it hits a sweet spot between serious model capability and practical deployability. A 276B-parameter model with only 12B active parameters per token is exactly the kind of architecture that makes sense if you care about cost, speed, and scaling real AI workflows. I also like that it is open weights under Apache 2.0. That makes it way more appealing for developers who want to fine-tune, inspect, customize, or build on top of the model without being completely locked into a closed API. The multimodal support is a big plus too. Being able to work with text, images, and audio inputs gives Inkling-Small a lot of room for developer tools, coding agents, support bots, document workflows, and internal automation.

Cons

  • The main downside is that “small” here is still not tiny. Even with only 12B active parameters, this is still a large open model that will require real infrastructure if you want to host it yourself. I would also want to test it deeply before making it the backbone of a production coding agent. The model card and early coverage look promising, but real developer workflows expose problems that benchmarks do not always catch: messy repos, flaky tests, weird dependencies, tool failures, and long multi-step tasks.

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Thinking Machines Lab
Founded: 2025
United States
thinkingmachines.ai/news/inkling-small/

Company Information

Xiaomi Technology
Founded: 2010
China
mimo.xiaomi.com

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Categories

Categories

Integrations

BLACKBOX AI
Canopy Wave
Cline
ClinePass
Hermes Agent
Kilo Code
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
OpenClaw
OpenCode
Roo Code
Shiori
Tinker
Vercel AI Gateway
Xiaomi MiMo
Xiaomi MiMo Studio

Integrations

BLACKBOX AI
Canopy Wave
Cline
ClinePass
Hermes Agent
Kilo Code
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
OpenClaw
OpenCode
Roo Code
Shiori
Tinker
Vercel AI Gateway
Xiaomi MiMo
Xiaomi MiMo Studio
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