Inkling 2 Small ships on Tinker while open weights await safety review
Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling 2 Small on Tinker for playground use, sampling and fine-tuning. The 594B-total, 17B-active multimodal MoE accepts text and images, offers variable effort and up to a 1-million-token context; downloadable Apache 2.0 weights were promised only after external safety testing.
Why it matters: The hosted release creates a concrete model and fine-tuning path for coding, vision and long-context work while preserving a clear line between today's closed-weight access and a planned open artifact.