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Thinking Machines launches Inkling 2 Small in Tinker
Thinking Machines Lab introduced Inkling 2 Small, a 594-billion-total, 17-billion-active mixture-of-experts model with image input and variable effort. It is available now in Tinker Playground, inference and fine-tuning with closed weights. An Apache 2.0 weight release is only intended after external safety tests, not available now.
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