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Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small claims top spot among western open-weight models

Thinking Machines, the startup led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is releasing Inkling 2 Small, a mixture-of-experts model with 594 billion parameters. The company claims it is the strongest western open-weight model, with improved agentic performance. However, this performance comes with significantly higher token usage.

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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 token usage rising sharply.

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