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Thinking Machines releases Inkling 2 Small with strong agentic capabilities · 2 sources tracked

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Thinking Machines Lab has released Inkling 2 Small, a new Mixture-of-Experts model with 594 billion total parameters and 17 billion active parameters. The model shows significant improvements over its predecessor, particularly in agentic coding, vision, and knowledge work, achieving a score of 31 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. While initially available through the Tinker platform, the full weights are slated for release under an Apache 2.0 license next week, pending external safety testing. AI

IMPACT Sets new SOTA on agentic coding and vision benchmarks, potentially influencing future model development in these areas.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=2 ai=1.0]

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Thinking Machines releases Inkling 2 Small with strong agentic capabilities · 2 sources tracked

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  1. Hacker News — AI stories ≥50 points TIER_1 (TL) · Philpax ·

    Inkling 2 Small

  2. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Paul Lovelace ·

    Inkling 2 Small Is Here — the Weights Aren't. What to Do Now

    <p>Mira Murati's lab just shipped its second model. It's a big one. And the part everyone actually wants — the downloadable weights — isn't here yet.</p> <p>Thinking Machines Lab announced Inkling 2 Small on 5 November 2026: a 594-billion-parameter sparse mixture-of-experts model…

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