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Inkling

Inkling is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 41B active parameters out of 975B total. It is designed for general-purpose reasoning, coding, agentic and tool-use systems,...

7/17/2026
524,288 tokens
#20 Text (Math)
Input: ¥178.7/M
Output: ¥723.735/M
Specifications

Modalities

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Supported Parameters

frequency_penalty
include_reasoning
logit_bias
max_tokens
min_p
presence_penalty
reasoning
reasoning_effort
repetition_penalty
stop
temperature
tool_choice
tools
top_k
top_p
Code Examples
curl https://api.fastmetal.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "model": "inkling",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

How Inkling actually answers

Real responses to our standard prompts, recorded on FastMetal.

Count the number of 'r's in 'strawberry'

Count the number of 'r's in 'strawberry'. Explain your reasoning step by step.

Let's break down the word **"strawberry"** letter by letter: 1. **s** 2. **t** 3. **r** ← (1st 'r') 4. **a** 5. **w** 6. **b** 7. **e** 8. **r** ← (2nd 'r') 9. **r** ← (3rd 'r') 10. **y** So the spelling is: s-t-**r**-a-w-b-e-**r**-**r**-y Counting them up: - One 'r' in "str" (the 3rd letter) - Two 'r's in "berry" (the 8th and 9th letters) **Total: 3 'r's** in "strawberry".**
2.4s response417 output tokens
Debug This Error

I'm getting the following error in my Node.js application: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'map') at UserList (/app/components/UserList.js:12:25) at renderWithHooks (/app/node_modules/rea…

The error occurs because `users` is `undefined` when `UserList` renders, so `users.map` fails. This usually happens when: - The parent doesn't pass the prop (`<UserList />` instead of `<UserList users={...} />`) - Data is still loading (e.g., API hasn't returned yet) ## Quick Fix Provide a default empty array so `.map` always has an array to work with: ```jsx function UserList({ users = [] }) { return ( <ul> {users.map(user => <li key={user.id}>{user.name}</li>)} </ul> ); } ``` Alternatively, guard against undefined explicitly: ```jsx function UserList({ users }) { if (!users) return null; // or a loading state return ( <ul> {users.map(user => <li key={…
4.9s response585 output tokens
Code Review

Please review the following Python function and suggest improvements for readability, performance, and best practices: def get_data(url, retries=3): import requests import time for i in range(retries):…

Here is a review with an improved version followed by explanations. ### Issues in the original - **Imports inside the function**: Re-importing on every call is inefficient. - **Bare `except:`**: Catches `SystemExit`, `KeyboardInterrupt`, etc. - **Silent failures**: No logging; errors disappear. - **Magic numbers**: `10`, `2`, `200` are hard-coded. - **Data validation missing**: Assumes `data` is a list and every item has `"active"`, `"name"`, and `"id"` (will crash with `KeyError`). - **Performance**: Uses `.append()` in a loop instead of a list comprehension. - **Ambiguous return**: `[]` means both "success with no results" and "total failure". ### Improved version ```python import loggi…
54.1s response5649 output tokens

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