Thinking Machines unveils Inkling 2 Small, a 594B-parameter mixture-of-experts model
Thinking Machines says it has released Inkling 2 Small, a mixture-of-experts base model with 594 billion parameters (17 billion active) that accepts text and images and is initially offered via the Tinker platform; the company intends to publish the weights under an Apache 2.0 license after external safety testing. According to Thinking Machines and Artificial Analysis metrics cited by the company, Inkling 2 Small scores 31 on the Artificial Analysis AI Index (an 18-point gain over its predecessor), shows large gains on agentic and coding benchmarks, produces more output tokens and costs more per task, and claims the strongest performance among Western open-weight models.