Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small hits OpenRouter free, 594B MoE with 1M context
soumithchintala · x · 2026-11-10
Soumith Chintala announced Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small is now live on OpenRouter.
Key details:
- Multimodal MoE reasoning model: 17B active parameters out of 594B total; first model of the second Inkling generation
- Trained with RL on long-horizon coding tasks across many agent harnesses; suited for agentic coding, autonomous research, knowledge work, and RAG
- Text and image input (no audio), tool calling, variable reasoning effort, 1M-token context window
- The free endpoint is agentic-harness-only, and prompts/outputs are logged (de-identified) and used to improve TML's models — free usage in exchange for data
Related event: Thinking Machines Launches Inkling 2 Small on OpenRouter(2 posts)→
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