LFM3 vs. Inkling

LFM3 showcases Liquid AI's collection of versatile, open-weight foundational models tailored for a diverse range of applications, spanning text, vision, audio, and multimodal functionalities. This array includes specialized versions for generating text, processing vision-language tasks, handling audio, addressing omni tasks, and facilitating decision-making processes. Developers can choose to download the model weights for customization through fine-tuning and deploy them on local edge devices, or they may opt for Liquid AI’s hosted API for seamless access. The potential uses for these models are extensive, including conversational agents, invoking tools, transcribing and synthesizing speech, interpreting images and videos, extracting and classifying documents, routing information, and enabling robotics capabilities. LFM3 is designed to meet the needs of developers, researchers, and organizations aiming to build customized AI solutions that prioritize adaptable deployment options, including support for on-premises inference. Additionally, these open-weight models are governed by Liquid AI’s LFM Open License, which stipulates the eligibility for commercial use and its specific terms based on the annual revenue of the organization. This level of flexibility empowers users to precisely customize their AI implementations to suit their specific requirements, thereby significantly enhancing the overall functionality and effectiveness of the models. Moreover, with the rapid advancements in AI, having such adaptable tools is crucial for staying competitive in the ever-evolving technological landscape.

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.