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Description
Inkling is Thinking Machines’ open-weights foundation model built for customization, multimodal reasoning, and agentic AI workflows. The model uses a Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 975 billion total parameters and 41 billion active parameters, making it large in capacity while activating only a subset of experts per token. Inkling supports up to a 1 million token context window and was pretrained on 45 trillion tokens spanning text, images, audio, and video. It is designed as a broad generalist model with strengths across coding, reasoning, instruction following, factuality, tool use, vision, audio understanding, forecasting, and safety. Developers can tune its thinking effort to trade off latency, cost, and performance, which is useful for production systems that need efficient reasoning at scale. Inkling can be fine-tuned on Tinker, tested in the Inkling Playground, and deployed through partners such as TogetherAI, Fireworks, Modal, Databricks, Baseten, vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp, and Hugging Face transformers. The model can generate applications, operate tools, create styled artifacts, reason over visual and audio inputs, and support long refinement loops for collaborative work. Thinking Machines also previewed Inkling-Small, a lighter Mixture-of-Experts model with 276 billion total parameters and 12 billion active parameters for lower-cost and lower-latency workloads. By combining open weights, multimodal training, agentic capabilities, efficient reasoning, and fine-tuning support, Inkling gives builders a flexible AI foundation for specialized products and workflows.
Description
Step 3.5 Flash is a cutting-edge open-source foundational language model designed for advanced reasoning and agent-like capabilities, optimized for efficiency; it utilizes a sparse Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture that activates only approximately 11 billion of its nearly 196 billion parameters per token, ensuring high-density intelligence and quick responsiveness. The model features a 3-way Multi-Token Prediction (MTP-3) mechanism that allows it to generate hundreds of tokens per second, facilitating complex multi-step reasoning and task execution while efficiently managing long contexts through a hybrid sliding window attention method that minimizes computational demands across extensive datasets or codebases. Its performance on reasoning, coding, and agentic tasks is formidable, often matching or surpassing that of much larger proprietary models, and it incorporates a scalable reinforcement learning system that enables continuous self-enhancement. Moreover, this innovative approach positions Step 3.5 Flash as a significant player in the field of AI language models, showcasing its potential to revolutionize various applications.
API Access
Has API
Yes
API Access
Has API
Yes
Integrations
GitHub
No
Hugging Face
No
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Yes
ModelScope
No
Tinker
Yes
arXiv
No
Integrations
GitHub
Yes
Hugging Face
Yes
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
No
ModelScope
Yes
Tinker
No
arXiv
Yes
Pricing Details
Free
Free Trial
No
Free Version
Yes
Pricing Details
Free
Free Trial
No
Free Version
Yes
Deployment
Web-Based
Yes
On-Premises
No
iPhone App
No
iPad App
No
Android App
No
Windows
No
Mac
No
Linux
No
Chromebook
No
Deployment
Web-Based
Yes
On-Premises
No
iPhone App
Yes
iPad App
Yes
Android App
Yes
Windows
No
Mac
No
Linux
No
Chromebook
No
Customer Support
Business Hours
No
Live Rep (24/7)
No
Online Support
No
Customer Support
Business Hours
No
Live Rep (24/7)
No
Online Support
Yes
Types of Training
Training Docs
Yes
Webinars
No
Live Training (Online)
No
In Person
No
Types of Training
Training Docs
Yes
Webinars
No
Live Training (Online)
No
In Person
No
Vendor Details
Company Name
Thinking Machines Lab
Founded
2025
Country
United States
Website
thinkingmachines.ai/
Vendor Details
Company Name
StepFun
Founded
2023
Country
China
Website
static.stepfun.com/blog/step-3.5-flash/