Inkling vs. Grok 4 Heavy

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.

Grok 4 Heavy is xAI’s most powerful AI model to date, utilizing a sophisticated multi-agent system architecture to excel in advanced reasoning and multimodal intelligence. Powered by the Colossus supercomputer in Memphis, this model has achieved an impressive 50% score on the difficult HLE benchmark, significantly outperforming many rivals in AI research. Grok 4 Heavy supports various input types including text and images, with video input capabilities expected soon to further enhance its contextual and cultural understanding. This premium-tier AI model is tailored for power users such as developers, technical researchers, and enthusiasts who require unparalleled AI performance for demanding applications. Access to Grok 4 Heavy is offered through the “SuperGrok Heavy” subscription plan priced at $300 per month, which also provides early previews of upcoming features like video generation. xAI has made significant improvements in moderation and content filtering to prevent biased or extremist outputs previously associated with earlier versions. Founded in late 2023, xAI rapidly built a comprehensive AI infrastructure focused on innovation and responsibility. Grok 4 Heavy strengthens xAI’s position as a key player competing against giants like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic. It embodies the vision of an AI system capable of self-improvement and pioneering new scientific breakthroughs. Grok 4 Heavy marks a new era of AI sophistication and practical capability for advanced users.