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What is SmolVLM?

SmolVLM-Instruct is an efficient multimodal AI model that adeptly merges vision and language processing, allowing it to execute tasks such as image captioning, answering visual questions, and creating multimodal narratives. Its capability to handle both text and image inputs makes it an ideal choice for environments with limited resources. By employing SmolLM2 as its text decoder in conjunction with SigLIP for image encoding, it significantly boosts performance in tasks requiring the integration of text and visuals. Furthermore, SmolVLM-Instruct can be tailored for specific use cases, offering businesses and developers a versatile tool that fosters the development of intelligent and interactive systems utilizing multimodal data. This flexibility enhances its appeal for various sectors, paving the way for groundbreaking application developments across multiple industries while encouraging creative solutions to complex problems.

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

Media

Integrations Supported

Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Tinker

Integrations Supported

Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Tinker

API Availability

Has API

API Availability

Has API

Pricing Information

Free
Open source
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

Hugging Face

Date Founded

2016

Company Location

United States

Company Website

huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM-Instruct

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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