Thinking Machines releases Inkling 2 Small: 594B MoE, 17B active, image+text
ariG23498 · x · 2026-11-13
Thinking Machines Lab has released its most capable model yet, Inkling 2 Small, now on Hugging Face (announced by HF engineer ariG23498).
- Architecture: 594B-parameter MoE with 17B active ("definitely not that small")
- Modalities: image + text, no audio
- The team claims architectural innovation
- HF hosts multiple variants, including Inkling-2-Small (383B label) and Inkling-2-Small-MXFP8 (612B label)
It follows the lab's earlier Inkling and Tinker releases.
Related event: Thinking Machines open-sources Inkling 2 Small: 594B MoE under Apache 2.0(8 posts)→
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