Thinking Machines Ships Inkling 2 Small, Takes #3 on SWE-bench Multimodal
ziqiao_ma · x · 2026-11-06
Thinking Machines (Mira Murati's lab) releases Inkling 2 Small, scoring 31 on the AA Intelligence Index—a big jump over its predecessor. It's available today for fine-tuning and inference on Tinker, with a full weight release planned soon.
On Vals' SWE-bench Multimodal leaderboard (open-weights view), it ranks #3 with 43.13% accuracy behind DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (46.46%) and Kimi K3 (44.17%), while costing just $0.30 per test and finishing in 11m46s—fastest and among the cheapest near the top.
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