Third-party tests: Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small outperforms full Inkling 1 on real workloads
dbreunig · x · 2026-11-15
Lunaroute AI is testing Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small on real workloads. The tester distrusts benchmarks at face value and reports it performs well for its size — notably better than the full Inkling 1. In scale terms it is slightly bigger than Beam and about half of Muse Spark Open.
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