Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small claims top spot among western open-weight models
Source: The Decoder (opens in a new tab) · Matthias Bastian
Intel Summary
Thinking Machines, the startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is releasing Inkling 2 Small, a 594-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts open-weight model. The vendor claims it is the strongest Western open-weight model available, noting that its improved agentic performance requires significantly higher token usage.
Why It Matters
The release introduces a large-scale open-weight option for agentic systems, giving developers greater control over deployment. However, increased token consumption directly raises inference costs and latency, requiring teams to assess efficiency trade-offs before integrating it into production workflows.
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