Inkling-Small

Inkling-Small

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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

Muse Glimmer is a 30-billion-parameter open-weights model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, optimized for always-on local agent workflows. Small enough to run on a Mac or PC with a single consumer GPU, it is designed for local agents, function calling, coding, and LLM-as-a-judge evaluation without depending on cloud infrastructure or network access. The model combines long-horizon execution, precise tool calling, multimodal understanding, long-context memory, and instruction following. It can complete end-to-end agentic tasks, sustain multi-step reasoning across extended workflows, recover from failed or unexpected tool calls, and accept interleaved text and images through a dedicated perception encoder for interpreting screenshots, charts, and documents. Muse Glimmer works with OpenClaw and other agentic orchestration patterns, supports controllable reasoning effort, and is trained on data from more than 100 languages.

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

Developers building private, always-on AI agents that need strong reasoning, tool use, and multimodal capabilities on local hardware

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

Free
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
features 4.0 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5

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.

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • Muse Glimmer is exciting because it brings serious AI capability closer to the device. An open-weight model that can run on a laptop or desktop is a big deal for developers, builders, and AI power users who want more control. I like that it is focused on agentic tasks, not just basic chat. If it can handle reasoning, coding help, workflow automation, and local experimentation well, it could be really useful for private projects and always-on agents. The open-weight angle is the biggest win. Being able to download, modify, and run the model locally makes Muse Glimmer feel much more flexible than a closed API-only model.

Cons

  • I would still want to test it hard before trusting it for serious work. Smaller local models can be impressive, but they still need to prove themselves on coding, tool use, long tasks, and messy real-world prompts. Running locally also means the experience depends on your hardware. Even if it works on consumer devices, performance, speed, and setup may vary a lot.

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

Meta
Founded: 2004
United States
meta.ai/

Alternatives

Alternatives

Inkling

Inkling

Thinking Machines Lab

Categories

Categories

Integrations

ExecuTorch
Hermes Agent
Hugging Face
LM Studio
Meta AI
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Muse Code
Ollama
OpenClaw
OpenCode
Tinker
Unsloth

Integrations

ExecuTorch
Hermes Agent
Hugging Face
LM Studio
Meta AI
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Muse Code
Ollama
OpenClaw
OpenCode
Tinker
Unsloth
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