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What is Mu?

On June 23, 2025, Microsoft introduced Mu, a cutting-edge language model boasting 330 million parameters and designed to significantly improve the agent experience in Windows environments by seamlessly converting natural language questions into functional calls for Settings, with all operations executed on-device via NPUs at an impressive speed exceeding 100 tokens per second while maintaining high accuracy. Utilizing Phi Silica optimizations, Mu's encoder-decoder architecture employs a fixed-length latent representation that notably minimizes computational requirements and memory consumption, achieving a 47 percent decrease in first-token latency and delivering a decoding speed that is 4.7 times faster on Qualcomm Hexagon NPUs in comparison to traditional decoder-only models. Furthermore, the model is enhanced by hardware-aware tuning methodologies, which incorporate a strategic 2/3–1/3 division of encoder and decoder parameters, shared weights for both input and output embeddings, Dual LayerNorm, rotary positional embeddings, and grouped-query attention, facilitating rapid inference rates that surpass 200 tokens per second on devices like the Surface Laptop 7, along with response times for settings-related queries that are under 500 ms. This impressive blend of features and optimizations establishes Mu as a revolutionary development in the realm of on-device language processing capabilities, setting new standards for speed and efficiency. As a result, users can expect a more intuitive and responsive experience when interacting with their Windows settings through natural language.

What is Inkling-Small?

Inkling-Small is an efficient multimodal AI model built to deliver strong reasoning and coding performance at a fraction of Inkling’s size. It is a Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 276 billion total parameters and 12 billion active parameters. The model was trained on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems and is designed to combine high capability with more efficient inference. Inkling-Small supports native reasoning across text, images, and audio, allowing it to work across multimodal tasks without relying on separate encoders. Its context window supports up to one million tokens, making it useful for long-form reasoning, large-scale code understanding, document analysis, and agentic workflows. Users can adjust reasoning effort from minimal to extra high depending on whether they need faster responses or deeper computation. The model’s training process includes improved pre-training data, post-training with on-policy distillation from Inkling, and extended agentic coding reinforcement learning. These techniques helped Inkling-Small outperform its larger counterpart on reasoning and coding benchmarks. The model performs well in coding and tool-use harnesses and exceeds 80% on SWE-bench Verified. Its encoder-free architecture processes audio as dMel spectrograms and images as 40-by-40-pixel patches alongside text tokens. By combining efficient MoE design, one-million-token context, adjustable reasoning effort, multimodal processing, coding strength, and tool-use performance, Inkling-Small is designed for developers and teams that need capable AI with lower active compute requirements.

Media

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Integrations Supported

Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Tinker

Integrations Supported

Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Tinker

API Availability

Has API

API Availability

Has API

Pricing Information

Pricing not provided
Free Version
Free Trial Offered?

Pricing Information

$0.30 per million input tokens
$0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens
Free Version
Free Trial Offered?

Supported Platforms

SaaS
Android
iPhone
iPad
Windows
Mac
On-Prem
Chromebook
Linux

Supported Platforms

SaaS
Android
iPhone
iPad
Windows
Mac
On-Prem
Chromebook
Linux

Customer Service / Support

Standard Support
24 Hour Support
Web-Based Support

Customer Service / Support

Standard Support
24 Hour Support
Web-Based Support

Training Options

Documentation Hub
Webinars
Online Training
On-Site Training

Training Options

Documentation Hub
Webinars
Online Training
On-Site Training

Company Facts

Organization Name

Microsoft

Date Founded

1975

Company Location

United States

Company Website

blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2025/06/23/introducing-mu-language-model-and-how-it-enabled-the-agent-in-windows-settings/

Company Facts

Organization Name

Thinking Machines Lab

Date Founded

2025

Company Location

United States

Company Website

thinkingmachines.ai/news/inkling-small/

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