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The strongest open weights in the West are dethroned within a day

development2026-07-16

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Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter multimodal model that was instantly the strongest open weights in the West, before Moonshot's Kimi K3 arrived at 2.8 trillion parameters with native vision, the largest open-weight model out of China, seizing first in the Frontend Code Arena and dethroning Fable 5 in six of seven domains.

Reported metric: 975B then 2.8T params

Reporting date: 2026-07-16 (not necessarily the event date)

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The strongest open weights in the West are dethroned within a day
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Reporting date: 2026-07-16
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-07-16-the-open-crown-changes-hands-in-a-day
Claim: Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter multimodal model that was instantly the strongest open weights in the West, before Moonshot's Kimi K3 arrived at 2.8 trillion parameters with native vision, the largest open-weight model out of China, seizing first in the Frontend Code Arena and dethroning Fable 5 in six of seven domains.
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