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Thinking Machines releases Inkling 2 Small multimodal MoE model

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Thinking Machines has released Inkling 2 Small, a multimodal MoE model with 594B total parameters and 17B active parameters. The model boasts a 1M context window and was pretrained in under 3 days on 12T tokens using NVFP4 precision. It is positioned as a leading open-weight model, with Apache 2.0 weights expected after safety testing. AI

IMPACT Sets a new benchmark for open-weight models, potentially accelerating research and development in multimodal AI.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Thinking Machines releases Inkling 2 Small multimodal MoE model

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COVERAGE [1]

  1. Latent Space (swyx) TIER_1 English(EN) · swyx .ai ·

    [AINews] Inkling 2 Small: 17A-594B trained in 68 hours on 12T tokens, beating Muse Spark

    November 5, 2026 — Inside Inkling 2 Small’s training run and METR’s study of AI research at Anthropic.

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