Source details
- Original source
- unite.ai
- Published
- 2026-11-06
- Primary topic
- Foundation Models
Why it matters
Model launches, benchmark jumps, API upgrades, context window changes, and frontier LLM competition. Use the original source for the full report, then use the directory shortcuts below to compare the products and workflows the story points toward.
What happened
Thinking Machines Lab introduced Inkling 2 Small on November 5, 2026, making its second-generation model available through Tinker with closed weights. The sparse Mixture-of-Experts system has 594 billion total parameters and 17 billion active parameters, targeting long-horizon autonomous work alongside coding, vision and knowledge tasks. At launch, Tinker Playground provides inference-only access, while Tinker supports fine-tuning and sampling under the platform’s terms. Thinking Machines…
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Thinking Machines Lab introduced Inkling 2 Small on November 5, 2026, making its second-generation model available through Tinker with closed weights. The sparse Mixture-of-Experts system has 594 billion total parameters and 17 billion active parameters, targeting long-horizon autonomous work alongside coding, vision and knowledge tasks. At launch, Tinker Playground provides inference-only access, while Tinker supports fine-tuning and sampling under the platform’s terms. Thinking Machines…
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