Tiny Aya vs. Inkling

Tiny Aya is a suite of multilingual language models created by Cohere Labs, designed to deliver powerful and adaptable artificial intelligence capabilities that can operate effectively on local devices like smartphones and laptops, eliminating the necessity for constant cloud connectivity. This pioneering model focuses on improving text understanding and generation across more than 70 languages, with particular emphasis on lower-resource languages that often go overlooked by traditional models. Constructed with an efficient architecture featuring approximately 3.35 billion parameters, Tiny Aya has been optimized for excellent multilingual performance and computational efficiency, making it particularly suitable for use in edge computing environments and offline applications. Additionally, the models are structured to allow for downstream adaptation and instruction tuning, which enables developers to customize the models’ functionalities for various specific applications while maintaining robust performance across different languages. Ultimately, Tiny Aya not only broadens the accessibility of cutting-edge AI technologies but also equips developers with the tools needed to craft tailored applications that cater to a wide array of linguistic requirements, thus fostering greater inclusivity in AI-driven solutions. This capacity for customization ensures that Tiny Aya can evolve alongside the needs of its users, making it a versatile choice in the ever-changing landscape of AI development.

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.