Inkling 2 Small billed as highest-AA non-Chinese open-weights model

elemental-mind · reddit · 2026-11-06

A Reddit post relays Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small release, billed as the highest-AA-scoring non-Chinese open-weights model (pending release). The attached coding benchmark table shows FrontierCode v2.0 at 25.4% (behind DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017's 28.5%), DeepSWE v1.1 at 72.1%, SWE-Bench Pro v2 Hard at 86.3%, and Vibe Code Bench at 81.6% — competitive with but not uniformly ahead of Chinese open-weights models.

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