Small model Inkling 2 Small ranks #2 on SWE Atlas, matches Kimi-K3 on SWE-Bench Pro V2
simonguozirui · x · 2026-11-06
- Thinking Machines released Inkling 2 Small, showing a small model matching big ones on agentic tasks via "good rubrics."
- It ranks #2 on SWE Atlas QnA 1.1 (74.20±7.80, behind Opus 5.5's 77.40), performs on par with Kimi-K3 on full SWE-Bench Pro V2 and with GPT-5.6 Terra on the hard subset.
- The comparison chart shows Fable 5.1, Muse Wonder 1.0, and Grok 4.7 all at 73.40, below this smaller model.
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