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Thinking Machines unveils Inkling 2 Small
The vision-capable model is available through Tinker with closed weights; an Apache 2.0 release is planned after safety testing.
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Thinking Machines Lab announced Inkling 2 Small on November 5, describing it as a vision-capable mixture-of-experts model with 594 billion total parameters and 17 billion active per token. The company says the model accepts image inputs and is designed for tasks including coding and knowledge work. [1]
The model is initially available through the company’s Tinker platform with closed weights. Thinking Machines Lab says it intends to release the weights under an Apache 2.0 license after external safety testing and red-teaming; that release is a plan, not yet a completed step. The company’s announcement also reports benchmark results, which have not been independently verified in the supplied source. [1]
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