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

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…

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. The article Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small claims top spot among western open-weight models appeared first on The Decoder.

Source: The Decoder — Published November 6, 2026 at 13:25 UTC — Category: Models