Inkling vs. Fugu-Ultra v1.1

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.

Fugu-Ultra v1.1 is the upgraded multi-agent orchestration model created by Sakana AI, specifically engineered for complex coding challenges, agent-centric tasks, and advanced reasoning abilities. Rather than relying solely on a single model, it skillfully coordinates a range of state-of-the-art models, selecting and combining specialized agents that are optimally suited for specific tasks, all while maintaining a cohesive model interface. The recent orchestration enhancement in v1.1 introduces newer frontier models, yielding improved performance metrics across numerous benchmarks and achieving gains of up to 7.9 points over v1.0, with particularly remarkable results on ProgramBench and Terminal Bench 2.1. Furthermore, Fugu is now capable of integrating flawlessly within Claude Code through compatible endpoints, facilitating a collaborative ecosystem of models that operate seamlessly in user-friendly terminal environments for coding, debugging, reviewing, and executing scripts. Users can swiftly establish this integration with a simple one-command installer on both Ubuntu and macOS, while alternative manual setup options are available for Windows and other operating systems, thereby ensuring accessibility for a wide range of users. This innovative advancement not only optimizes workflows but also significantly boosts productivity by harnessing the unique strengths of multiple specialized agents, ultimately leading to more efficient software development practices. Such improvements reflect Sakana AI's commitment to enhancing the capabilities and usability of their orchestration models in response to user needs.