Inkling 2 Small
Description
Inkling 2 Small is Thinking Machines Lab's second-generation MoE multimodal model (594B total / 17B active parameters), released 2026-11-05. It accepts text and image inputs (no audio) and generates text, with variable thinking effort. The model card lists a context window up to 1M tokens; Tinker serves 256K for serverless inference, and training and sampling are offered at 64K and 256K. Vendor-reported Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 score 30.6. Flash-tier price/performance on Tinker for inference and fine-tuning; currently closed-weight with Apache 2.0 weights pending external safety testing. Official Tinker serverless inference (256K sampling-nvfp4 list): $0.30 / $0.03 cached / $1.00 per 1M input/cached/output tokens.
Capability Radar
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Rankings
| Domain | #Rank | Score | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agentic Capability | 30 | 60.0 | LS |
| General Ranking | 27 | 46.0 | AA |
| Multimodal Ranking | 28 | 61.0 | LS |
| Science | 23 | 49.0 | AA |
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