{"type":"post","id":"inkling-2-small-model-card-826206","slug":"inkling-2-small-model-card-826206","title":"Inkling 2 Small Model Card","description":"Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling 2 Small, an Apache 2.0 open-weight multimodal model with 594 billion total parameters, 17 billion active per token, and a context window of up to one million tokens.","retrieval_nugget":"Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling 2 Small, an Apache 2.0 open-weight multimodal model with 594 billion total parameters, 17 billion active per token, and a context window of up to one million tokens. Its permissive license broadens experimentation, but self-hosting still requires a large GPU cluster, so the practical choice is between hosted access and substantial infrastructure.","published_at":"2026-11-14","updated_at":"2026-11-14","record_date":"2026-11-14","date_kind":"published_at","topics":["multimodal"],"entities":["Thinking Machines Lab","Inkling 2 Small","Tinker","Hugging Face","SGLang","vLLM","TokenSpeed","Unsloth"],"related_patterns":["agent-economics-moves-to-completed-work"],"novelty_label":"new_fact","what_changed":null,"prior_refs":[],"source_url":"https://thinkingmachines.ai/model-card/inkling-2-small","source_urls":["https://thinkingmachines.ai/model-card/inkling-2-small"],"schema_version":"newruntime-agent-readable-v0.2","stable_id":"post:inkling-2-small-model-card-826206","status":"published","visuals":[],"editor":{"role":"editor","name":"Andrey Reshetnikov","profile":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md","profile_json":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json","same_as":["https://www.linkedin.com/in/reshetnikov1/","https://t.me/lapetuse"]},"routes":{"html":"https://newruntime.com/posts/inkling-2-small-model-card-826206/","markdown":"https://newruntime.com/posts/inkling-2-small-model-card-826206.md","json":"https://newruntime.com/posts/inkling-2-small-model-card-826206.json"},"markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/inkling-2-small-model-card-826206.md","next_reads":[{"type":"topic","path":"/topics/multimodal/","url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/multimodal/","title":"Multimodal","reason":"Explore the multimodal topic hub.","media_type":"text/html","markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/multimodal.md","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/multimodal.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/posts/","url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/","title":"Field Notes","reason":"Open the latest editorial analysis.","media_type":"text/html","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/sources/","url":"https://newruntime.com/sources/","title":"Sources","reason":"See the original sources this archive cites.","media_type":"text/html"}]}