Thinking Machines Releases Inkling 2 Small, a 594B MoE With 17B Active

Thinking Machines Lab has released Inkling 2 Small, a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 594B total and 17B active parameters, 1M-token context, text and image input, and variable reasoning effort. It scores 31 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (up from 13 for Inkling Small) and is available on Tinker for fine-tuning and inference, with weights closed at launch and an Apache 2.0 release planned next week after external safety testing.