Leaks claim Thinky's new model matches DeepSeek at a fraction of the cost
Analyst teortaxesTex cited unverified data claiming Thinky's Inkling 2S was pretrained in about 1/12 the time at DeepSeek-comparable scale and could rival or beat DeepSeek V4.1, with RL on a recent checkpoint beating 5.6 Sol for roughly a million dollars.
2026-11-07 ~ 2026-11-07 · 2 related posts
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- Episode 5: Leaks claim Thinky's new model matches DeepSeek at a fraction of the cost(2026-11-07, 2 posts)
- Unverified: Thinky's 2S finished a DeepSeek-Coder-V2-scale pretrain 12x faster and cheaper — teortaxesTex · 2026-11-07
- 'A $1M checkpoint can easily beat 5.6 Sol': insider chatter dismisses AI slowdown talk — teortaxesTex · 2026-11-07