Thinking Machines Releases Inkling 2 Small Model

Thinking Machines released the reasoning model Inkling 2 Small, which scores 31 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0.1, 18 points higher than Inkling Small and on par with Gemini 3.8 Flash (high). At release, the model is proprietary and available only through Thinking Machines' Tinker platform and Tinker Playground, priced at $0.30/$1.00 per million input/output tokens and $0.03 per million cached input tokens. The company plans to release the weights later under the Apache 2.0 license, but the date is unconfirmed; Artificial Analysis says that under current rankings, once the weights are released it will be the highest-scoring open-weight model outside China. The above score and the "highest-scoring open-weight model" claim both come from Artificial Analysis's evaluation and judgment; the weights have not actually been released yet.

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