Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small claims top spot among western open-weight models
Thinking Machines, the startup from former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is releasing Inkling 2 Small, a mixture-of-experts model with 594 billion parameters. The company claims it's the strongest western open-weight model. Better agentic performance comes at a price, though, with…
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- Thinking Machines, the startup from former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is releasing Inkling 2 Small, a mixture-of-experts model with 594 billion parameters
- The company claims it's the strongest western open-weight model
- Better agentic performance comes at a price, though, with…
Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small claims top spot among western open-weight models
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