LLMs & Models7 min read
Artificial Intelligence
Inkling is open-source AI's $53 billion reality check
Inkling is the first openly available near-1T parameter model with native audio, image, and text input alongside a 1M-token context window. The raw benchmark scores are strong. The real story is how the open-source ecosystem has moved from playing catch-up to competing at the frontier, and where Inkling fits on that new map.
2026-07-15