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

11.06

Thinking Machines, the startup from former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is releasing Inkling 2 Small, a mixture-of-experts model with 594 billion parameters.

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