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Inkling 2 Small: A Developer's Checklist Before You Bet a Pipeline on a Model With No Weights Yet
DEV · By Shivam Kumar ·
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- An analysis by Vals AI found Inkling 2 Small swore 316 times across 2,655 benchmark runs, according to The Decoder.
- The profanity typically appears late in long runs that fail anyway.
- Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling 2 Small on November 5, 2026, with 594B total parameters and 17B active per token.
Why it matters
According to the analysis, the profanity does not work as a warning signal for failed runs, so teams should not rely on it to flag bad reasoning output.
Who’s affected
- Developers evaluating Inkling 2 Small for pipelines
- Teams that monitor model reasoning traces
What to do
- Confirm whether the full weights are available before building a pipeline on Inkling 2 Small
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- #reasoning
- #benchmarks
- #llm evaluation
- #thinking machines
Inkling 2 Small: A Developer's Checklist Before You Bet a Pipeline on a Model With No Weights Yet Shivam Kumar · November 8, 2026 Thinking Machines Lab dropped Inkling 2 Small on November 5: 594B total parameters, 17B active per token, a 31 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence…
Timeline
Thinking Machines Lab releases Inkling 2 Small
Vals AI analysis of profanity in benchmark runs is reported
The Decoder
Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small drops 316 F-bombs across benchmark runs
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Inkling 2 Small: Thinking Machines' 594B Model That Scores Like a Frontier System
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Inkling 2 Small: A Developer's Checklist Before You Bet a Pipeline on a Model With No Weights Yet