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Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has launched Inkling 2 Small, a 594-billion-parameter model that accepts images but only outputs text. Third-party evaluator Artificial Analysis gave it a score of 31 on its Intelligence Index, putting it on par with Gemini 3.8 Flash, though the company says it will not release the model's weights publicly until next week.
The developer unveiled Inkling 2 Small, a Mixture-of-Experts model with 594 billion total parameters and 17 billion active, supporting image inputs and variable effort levels. The model scored 31 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, a notable jump from the company's prior generation, with gains attributed to more efficient pre-training and a unified reinforcement learning run. It is currently accessible only through the Tinker platform with closed weights, ahead of a planned Apache 2.0 open-weight release next week pending safety testing.