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title: "Inkling model from Thinking Machines Lab now on Databricks"
description: "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."
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# Inkling model from Thinking Machines Lab now on Databricks

[Databricks](https://yomu.fyi/company/databricks) · Mike Eastham, Yuchen Jin, Preslav Le · Jul 15, 2026

**Type:** Announcement

## 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.

## Context

Enterprise teams can customize open-weight models on proprietary codebases, internal documentation, and domain-specific data, while retaining governance, provider choice, and control over inference costs. The announcement also positions Inkling for coding and agentic reasoning workflows using enterprise data.

## Approach / What changed

Inkling is offered through Unity AI Gateway, which provides security, permissions, audit logging, policy enforcement, cost controls, budgets, and observability. Customers can invoke it through a REST API, try it in AI Playground, connect coding agents including Cursor, OpenCode, and Pi, or build agents with Agent Bricks.

## Takeaways

- Inkling is Thinking Machines Lab’s first open-weights model and supports coding, agentic reasoning, and multi-modal inputs.
- Unity AI Gateway governs Inkling with enterprise security, permissions, audit logging, policy enforcement, cost controls, budgets, and observability.
- Inkling can be connected to Cursor, OpenCode, or Pi, while SQL query support is identified as coming soon.

**Tags:** [AI Agents](https://yomu.fyi/topic/ai-agents), [AI Gateway](https://yomu.fyi/topic/ai-gateway), [LLMs](https://yomu.fyi/topic/llm)

- Source: [Databricks](https://www.databricks.com/blog/inkling-thinking-machines-lab-now-databricks)
- Source URL: https://www.databricks.com/blog/inkling-thinking-machines-lab-now-databricks
- Ingested by Yomu: 2026-08-30T16:54:45.734Z

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