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Thinking Machines Lab releases Inkling 2 Small with 1M context and image input

Thinking Machines Lab has launched Inkling 2 Small, a new mixture-of-experts model. This model boasts 594 billion total parameters with 17 billion active parameters, and supports a 1 million token context window along with image inputs. Inkling 2 Small demonstrates significant performance improvements, achieving a score of 31 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, a notable increase from its predecessor's score of 13. It also performs well on specific benchmarks, scoring 86.3% on SWE-Bench Pro v2 Hard, though it achieved 13.1% on Terminal-Bench. The model's weights will not be released publicly at launch. AI

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Thinking Machines Lab releases Inkling 2 Small with 1M context and image input

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    Thinking Machines Lab has released Inkling 2 Small, a mixture-of-experts model with 594B total and 17B active parameters, a 1M-token context and image input. It

    Thinking Machines Lab has released Inkling 2 Small, a mixture-of-experts model with 594B total and 17B active parameters, a 1M-token context and image input. It scores 31 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, up from 13 for its predecessor, and 86.3% on SWE-Bench Pro v2 …