Inkling vs. Hy4

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.

Hy4 preview is an innovative open-source Mixture-of-Experts model designed for numerous practical productivity applications, such as software development, office tasks, game creation, and scientific research. With an astounding 770 billion parameters and 49 billion activated per token, it features a remarkable 1 million-token context window, enabling it to adeptly handle extensive codebases, large sets of documents, and intricate multi-step operations. The model's architecture incorporates 78 layers that utilize Gated DeepSeek Sparse Attention and IndexCache for efficient sparse index reuse across layers, while identity Hyper-Connections are implemented to improve information flow within the model. Furthermore, a specialized Multi-Token Prediction layer supports speculative decoding, significantly boosting its performance. Hy4 preview is engineered to understand, strategize, troubleshoot, and verify complex engineering initiatives, all while delivering substantial advancements in the quality of front-end visuals and interaction design, ultimately serving as an essential tool for experts in a wide range of fields. This versatility makes it an outstanding choice for professionals seeking to enhance their productivity and efficiency in various projects.