# Thinking Machines' Inkling: Architecture and Customization Choices

DevFeed: [Thinking Machines' Inkling: Architecture and Customization Choices](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-new-american-ai-model-designed-to-be-customized-17999.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.bytebytego.com/p/the-new-american-ai-model-designed>)

Author: ByteByteGo

Published: 2026-08-18T15:30:36Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [ByteByteGo](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/bytebytego.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Mixture of Experts (MoE)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mixture-of-experts-moe.md>), [context window](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/context-window.md>), [Fine-tuning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/fine-tuning.md>), [interfaces](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/interfaces.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [context-window](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/context-window.md>), [fine-tuning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/fine-tuning.md>), [hugging-face](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hugging-face.md>), [mixture-of-experts](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mixture-of-experts.md>), [model](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/model.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/real-time.md>)

## AI overview

The article examines the architecture and design choices behind Thinking Machines' Inkling model, including its mixture-of-experts structure, local and global attention, position encoding, multimodal inputs, and adjustable thinking effort. It also notes that Inkling is the company's first model trained from scratch and that its weights are available on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license.

## Source excerpt

In this article, we will work through the various choices Thinking Machines made while building Inkling.