Inkling vs. DBRX

Inkling is an open-weights multimodal AI model from Thinking Machines built to support customization, agentic workflows, coding, reasoning, vision, audio, and enterprise AI use cases. The model is a Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 975 billion total parameters, 41 billion active parameters, 256 routed experts per MoE layer, and six routed experts active per token. It supports context windows up to 1 million tokens and was pretrained on 45 trillion tokens across text, images, audio, and video. Inkling is designed as a broad foundation model rather than a narrowly optimized benchmark model, giving it balanced capabilities across reasoning, coding, factuality, instruction following, vision, audio, tool use, and safety. Its controllable thinking effort lets developers adjust how much computation and generated reasoning the model uses, helping teams balance quality, latency, and cost for different production needs. The model can run agentic coding tasks, use tools, create web apps, generate polished multi-page artifacts, reason over long contexts, and work through iterative refinement loops. For multimodal tasks, Inkling can process images, answer questions about visual content, transcribe and reason over audio, follow spoken instructions, and combine visual reasoning with code-based tools such as Python. Thinking Machines trained Inkling for calibration, instruction following, factual reliability, refusal behavior, and safety across multiple modalities, including evaluations for dangerous capabilities and human-AI threat vectors. Inkling is available on Tinker for fine-tuning, with 64K and 256K context options, an Inkling Playground for testing, cookbook recipes, and support for multimodal post-training workflows. Its full weights are available on Hugging Face, and deployment support is available through APIs and infrastructure partners such as TogetherAI, Fireworks, Modal, Databricks, Baseten, SGLang, vLLM, llama.cpp, and transformers.

We are excited to introduce DBRX, a highly adaptable open LLM created by Databricks. This cutting-edge model sets a new standard for open LLMs by achieving remarkable performance across a wide range of established benchmarks. It offers both open-source developers and businesses the advanced features that were traditionally limited to proprietary model APIs; our assessments show that it surpasses GPT-3.5 and stands strong against Gemini 1.0 Pro. Furthermore, DBRX shines as a coding model, outperforming dedicated systems like CodeLLaMA-70B in various programming tasks, while also proving its capability as a general-purpose LLM. The exceptional quality of DBRX is further enhanced by notable improvements in training and inference efficiency. With its sophisticated fine-grained mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture, DBRX pushes the efficiency of open models to unprecedented levels. In terms of inference speed, it can achieve performance that is twice as fast as LLaMA2-70B, and its total and active parameter counts are around 40% of those found in Grok-1, illustrating its compact structure without sacrificing performance. This unique blend of velocity and size positions DBRX as a transformative force in the realm of open AI models, promising to reshape expectations in the industry. As it continues to evolve, the potential applications for DBRX in various sectors are vast and exciting.