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  1. 12 Nov, 08:00 · 1 reports
    Inkling 2 Small on vLLM: Day-0 Support
    vLLM Blog:vLLM supports Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small on its first day of release
  2. 5 Nov, 08:00 · 5 reports
    Inkling 2 Small released
    The Decoder:Thinking Machines has released the Inkling 2 Small, claiming it is the strongest Western open-source weight model.

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12 Nov
  1. vLLM BlogFeatured
    vLLM 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.

6 Nov
  1. The DecoderFeatured
    Thinking 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.

  2. Latent Space
    Inkling 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

  3. MarkTechPostFeatured
    Thinking 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.

5 Nov
  1. Artificial Analysis ArticlesFeatured
    Thinking 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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