Thinking Machine Labs Inkling now available as a Databricks-hosted model in Public Preview

PreviewJul 15, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

Model Serving now supports Thinking Machine Labs Inkling as a Databricks-hosted model. This mixture of experts (MoE) model supports text and image inputs, a 1 million token context window, and is optimized for coding, reasoning, and agentic tool-use tasks. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs . Inkling is available in Public Preview .

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