Thinking Machines Inkling 2 Small: what's new (November 5, 2026)
Thinking Machines introduced Inkling 2 Small, a mixture-of-experts model with 594 billion total parameters and 17 billion active, with image input and variable effort. It is available on Tinker with closed weights, and the lab says Apache 2.0 weights are planned after external safety testing. Benchmark scores on the post are vendor-reported.
Who it is for
Developers trying or fine-tuning the model on Tinker.
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