Thinking Machines released Inkling 2 Small, weight not yet open
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- 12 Nov, 08:00 · 1 reportsInkling 2 Small on vLLM: Day-0 SupportvLLM Blog:vLLM supports Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small on its first day of release
- 5 Nov, 08:00 · 5 reportsInkling 2 Small releasedThe Decoder:Thinking Machines has released the Inkling 2 Small, claiming it is the strongest Western open-source weight model.
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- vLLM BlogFeaturedvLLM supports Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small on its first day of release
vLLM provides support for Inkling 2 Small on its first day of release. The model is a multimodal MoE with text and visual inputs, featuring a total of 594B parameters, 17B activation parameters, a maximum context length of 1M tokens, and comes with a built-in DSpark beam decoder.
- The DecoderFeaturedThinking Machines has released the Inkling 2 Small, claiming it is the strongest Western open-source weight model.
Thinking Machines releases second-generation model Inkling 2 Small, using MoE architecture, with total parameters of 594B and activation parameters of 17B, supporting text and image input and adjustable thinking depth.
- Latent SpaceInkling 2 Small released: 12T tokens trained within 68 hours, parameter size reaches 17A-594B and surpasses Muse Spark
Inkling 2 Small completes 17A-594B parameter size pre-training within 68 hours, surpassing Muse Spark; supports 12T token context window, users can adjust to 400K via Claude UI, but note that exceeding 300k may trigger workflow issues
- MarkTechPostFeaturedThinking Machines has released the Inkling 2 Small: a MoE model with 594B total parameters and 17B activations.
Thinking Machines Lab released the first model of the second-generation Inkling, Inkling 2 Small, a sparse MoE with 594B total parameters and 17B activation parameters, supporting text and image input and variable inference strength, with a context of 1M tokens.
- Artificial Analysis ArticlesFeaturedThinking Machines released Inkling 2 Small, Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index score 31
Thinking Machines released Inkling 2 Small, scored 31 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0.1, 18 points higher than Inkling Small, and the same as Gemini 3.8 Flash (high).
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