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

The Decoder · By Matthias Bastian · 4h ago

The Brief

Thinking Machines is releasing Inkling 2 Small, a mixture-of-experts model with 594 billion parameters
The company claims it is the strongest western open-weight model
Latent Space reports training took 68 hours on 12T tokens and claims it beats Muse Spark
The Decoder notes better agentic performance comes at a price, though the source excerpt does not specify the cost

Why it matters

Developers gain a new large open-weight model option from a western lab, but the claimed lead over other open-weight models comes from the company and the sources provide no independent benchmarks.

Who’s affected

Developers using or evaluating open-weight LLMs
Teams building agentic AI systems

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Thinking 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…

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