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The Decoder· Matthias Bastian·· 13 hours agoSelectedAI score71

Thinking Machines Launches Inkling 2 Small Open-Weights Model

Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small claims top spot among western open-weight models

AI guide

Mira Murati's startup, Thinking Machines, has released Inkling 2 Small, its second-generation open-weights model. Featuring a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 594B total parameters and 17B active parameters, it supports multimodal text and image inputs alongside adjustable thinking depth.

Why it matters

The article compares benchmark scores with per-task inference costs, helping readers evaluate its cost-effectiveness as an open-weights fine-tuning base.

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