Topic
Inkling 2 Small
2 episodes
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Model Behavior: Week of November 9, 2026
We spent this week arguing that the agent race just forked: frontier labs are chasing giant unified brains, while everyone else is quietly standardizing on a big-planner / small-doer stack and fighting to own the orchestration layer in the middle. Our read is that if you’re building agents, the question is shifting from “which model is smartest?” to “who controls how your planners, executors, tools and tests snap together.”
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Introducing Inkling 2 Small
Pippa and Tyler dig into Thinking Machines’ new Inkling 2 Small model: a 594B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts that’s API-only today but promised as Apache 2.0 open weights next week, with strong long-horizon coding and autoresearch results. They unpack why the kernel-optimization and time-series experiments matter more than the big parameter number, and why this could be the first open-weight model that’s genuinely tuned for agents doing multi-hour work rather than just answering one-off prompts.