Thinking Machines Releases Inkling 2 Small, a 594B MoE With 17B Active
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Inkling 2 Small: A Hard-Coding Pilot, Not A Shell Agent » Saipien
Seventeen billion parameters show up to work. Five hundred ninety-four billion are on the payroll. That is the bargain Thinking Machines Lab is selling with Inkling 2 Small, and as of November 5, 2026 it is a hiring decision, not a spec-sheet flex. On Terminal-Bench 4.0 the model scores 13.1%. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 scores 33.8% on the […]
Thinking Machines Lab presented Inkling 2 Small, a multimodal model of MoE architecture with 594 billion total parameters, 17 billion active and a context window of one million tokens. Its performance excels in certain programming and perception tests, although the model still shows weaknesses in terminal benchmarks and for now can only be used by Tinker.
Thinking Machines Lab, a US-based AI research company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, announced its AI model "Inkling 2 Small" on November 5, 2026 (local time). It is expected to be released as an open model soon. Read more...
Thinking Machines Releases Inkling 2 Small, a 594B MoE With 17B Active
Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling 2 Small, a 594B-parameter MoE with 17B active parameters. It scores 31 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and runs on Tinker, with Apache 2.0 weights planned.
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