Models/press release/2026-11-05

Thinking Machines releases Inkling 2 Small, a 594B MoE model with 17B active parameters

Thinking Machines has announced the release of Inkling 2 Small, an open-weights Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model. The company claims it features 594 billion total parameters with 17 billion active parameters, and that it outperforms competitors like Mistral and Muse Spark. These details are reported by multiple outlets, attributing the information to Thinking Machines.

3 articles from 3 outlets covered this story. The underlying claim is sourced from a press release.

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3 outlets covered “Thinking Machines releases Inkling 2 Small, a 594B MoE model with 17B active parameters”. All of them report the following:

  • Thinking Machines released Inkling 2 Small
  • It is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model
  • It has 594 billion total parameters
  • It has 17 billion active parameters
  • It is an open-weights model

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