Thinking Machines Inkling 2 Small claims top spot among Western open-weight models
Original title: Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small claims top spot among western open-weight models
Inkling 2 Small scores 31 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 18 points above predecessor, at higher cost.
Thinking Machines unveiled Inkling 2 Small, a mixture-of-experts model with 17 billion active parameters. It claims the top spot among Western open-weight models on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with scores on par with Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash. The model shows big gains in agentic tasks and visual reasoning benchmarks. Training used about 12 trillion tokens. Open weights are planned under an Apache 2.0 license.
- 17 billion active parameters
- 31 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
- 25 percent on FrontierCode 2.0
- Costs $1.18 per task
- Vendors
- Thinking Machines
- Organizations
- Artificial Analysis
- AI models
- Inkling 2 Small
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4 min read at the-decoder.comThinking Machines, the startup from former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is releasing Inkling 2 Small, a mixture-of-experts model with 594 billion parameters. The company claims it's the strongest western open-weight model. Better agentic performance comes at a price, though, with token usage rising sharply.
By Matthias Bastian · the-decoder.com
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