Nomic Embed vs. Inkling

Nomic Embed is an extensive suite of open-source, high-performance embedding models designed for various applications, including multilingual text handling, multimodal content integration, and code analysis. Among these models, Nomic Embed Text v2 utilizes a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture that adeptly manages over 100 languages with an impressive 305 million active parameters, providing rapid inference capabilities. In contrast, Nomic Embed Text v1.5 offers adaptable embedding dimensions between 64 and 768 through Matryoshka Representation Learning, enabling developers to balance performance and storage needs effectively. For multimodal applications, Nomic Embed Vision v1.5 collaborates with its text models to form a unified latent space for both text and image data, significantly improving the ability to conduct seamless multimodal searches. Additionally, Nomic Embed Code demonstrates superior embedding efficiency across multiple programming languages, proving to be an essential asset for developers. This adaptable suite of models not only enhances workflow efficiency but also inspires developers to approach a wide range of challenges with creativity and innovation, thereby broadening the scope of what they can achieve in their projects.

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.