Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small: 594B MoE claimed as strongest western open-weight model
The Decoder · rss · 2026-11-06
Thinking Machines, the startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released Inkling 2 Small, a 594-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model the company claims is the strongest western open-weight model.
Key points:
- The headline strength is agentic performance, where it leads other western open-weight models
- The catch: token usage rises sharply, so real-world serving costs are significantly higher than raw capability suggests
- Third-party benchmarks will be needed to verify the "strongest" claim
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