Thinking Machines' open-weights Inkling 2 Small hits #1 open Elo 1376, 15x cheaper output than Kimi K3
udmrzn · x · 2026-11-07
Thinking Machines released Inkling 2 Small, scoring 31 on the AA Intelligence Index — a big jump over its predecessor. It's available now for fine-tuning and inference on Tinker, with full weight release planned soon.
Third-party numbers (Design Arena overall frontend leaderboard):
- #1 among open-weights models (Elo 1376), 4th overall — ahead of GPT-6.1 Sol and every other open model.
- Priced at $0.30/$1.00 per million tokens, roughly 15x cheaper on output than Kimi K3.
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