{"slug": "thinking-machines-inkling-2-small-claims-top-spot-among-western-open-weight", "title": "Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small claims top spot among western open-weight models", "summary": "Thinking Machines, the startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released Inkling 2 Small, a 594-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model the company claims is the strongest western open-weight model. The model's improved agentic performance comes with sharply higher token usage, according to the company.", "body_md": "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.\n\nThe article [Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small claims top spot among western open-weight models](https://the-decoder.com/thinking-machines-inkling-2-small-claims-top-spot-among-western-open-weight-models/) appeared first on [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/thinking-machines-inkling-2-small-claims-top-spot-among-western-open-weight", "canonical_source": "https://the-decoder.com/thinking-machines-inkling-2-small-claims-top-spot-among-western-open-weight-models/", "published_at": "2026-11-06 13:25:09+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-06 13:49:48.320469+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-agents", "ai-startups"], "entities": ["Thinking Machines", "Inkling 2 Small", "Mira Murati", "OpenAI"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/thinking-machines-inkling-2-small-claims-top-spot-among-western-open-weight", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/thinking-machines-inkling-2-small-claims-top-spot-among-western-open-weight.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/thinking-machines-inkling-2-small-claims-top-spot-among-western-open-weight.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/thinking-machines-inkling-2-small-claims-top-spot-among-western-open-weight.jsonld"}}