Proximal evals Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small: strong at long-horizon autoresearch
simonguozirui · x · 2026-11-06
ProximalHQ congratulates Thinking Machines on Inkling 2 Small, saying it evaluated the model's autoresearch capabilities and found it strong for long-horizon research tasks. The quoted post praises the thoroughness of Inkling's evaluation methodology and notes that jointly developed auto-research evals were featured in the launch blog — an early third-party signal on Thinking Machines' new model and its auto-research direction.
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