Inkling vs. EXAONE Deep

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.

EXAONE Deep is a suite of sophisticated language models developed by LG AI Research, featuring configurations of 2.4 billion, 7.8 billion, and 32 billion parameters. These models are particularly adept at tackling a range of reasoning tasks, excelling in domains like mathematics and programming evaluations. Notably, the 2.4B variant stands out among its peers of comparable size, while the 7.8B model surpasses both open-weight counterparts and the proprietary model OpenAI o1-mini. Additionally, the 32B variant competes strongly with leading open-weight models in the industry. The accompanying repository not only provides comprehensive documentation, including performance metrics and quick-start guides for utilizing EXAONE Deep models with the Transformers library, but also offers in-depth explanations of quantized EXAONE Deep weights structured in AWQ and GGUF formats. Users will also find instructions on how to operate these models locally using tools like llama.cpp and Ollama, thereby broadening their understanding of the EXAONE Deep models' potential and ensuring easier access to their powerful capabilities. This resource aims to empower users by facilitating a deeper engagement with the advanced functionalities of the models.