Inkling model from Thinking Machines Lab now on Databricks

Summary

Databricks announces that Inkling, Thinking Machines Lab’s first open-weights model, is available to enterprise customers through the Unity AI Gateway. The model is positioned for coding and agentic reasoning workflows, supports multi-modal inputs, and can be applied to enterprise data, including proprietary codebases, internal documentation, and domain-specific data. Unity AI Gateway provides centralized security, permissions, audit logging, policy enforcement, cost controls, budgets, and observability, while data remains within the governed environment; Inkling is invoked through a REST API, with SQL query support planned. Teams can try it in AI Playground, deploy a governed endpoint, connect coding agents such as Cursor, OpenCode, or Pi, and build agents with Agent Bricks, with open weights enabling customization and inference-cost optimization without per-token API pricing.

Takeaways

1. 1

   Inkling is Thinking Machines Lab’s first open-weights model and supports coding, agentic reasoning, and multi-modal inputs.

2. 2

   Unity AI Gateway governs Inkling with enterprise security, permissions, audit logging, policy enforcement, cost controls, budgets, and observability.

3. 3

   Inkling can be connected to Cursor, OpenCode, or Pi, while SQL query support is identified as coming soon.