THE DECODER (Jul 16, 2026) coverage of Inkling release.
Benchmarks (Artificial Analysis):
- Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index: 41 — leading U.S. open-weights model
- Above Nemotron 3 Ultra (38), Gemma 4 31B (29), gpt-oss-120b (24)
- Still trails leading Chinese open models and proprietary Claude/GPT on overall quality
- Strong agentic performance cited
- Weak factual accuracy: AA Omniscience +2; accuracy ~40%; hallucination rate ~63%
- Multimodal: text, images, audio
Architecture recap: 975B MoE / 41B active; competitive with DeepSeek V4 / GLM 5.2 / Kimi K2.6 class size but not quality leadership.