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

Thinking Machines Lab has released Inkling 2 Small, a mixture-of-experts model featuring 594 billion total parameters and 17 billion active parameters. The model currently holds a score of 31 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and is scheduled to be released with Apache 2.0 weights.

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