Thinking Machines' Inkling multimodal model now available on Modal

Thinking Machines released Inkling, a general-purpose multimodal model that takes text, image and audio inputs and outputs text, and Modal is offering it from day zero as a Managed Endpoint with token-based pricing. Inkling is a mixture-of-experts transformer with 975B total parameters, 41B active, a 1M token context window and native audio and vision, using five sliding-window attention layers for every full-attention layer. On agentic workloads with 8x B200s, Modal's custom DFlash speculator reached 250 tokens per second per user at 2.5M TPM of per-GPU throughput, 67% faster interactivity than the model's built-in speculative path at matched throughput.