Thinking Machines Lab, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has launched Inkling 2 Small. The model is initially available only through the company’s Tinker platform. Its weights are planned for public release, pending safety evaluations. [1, 2, 3, 8, 9]
Artificial Analysis reported that Inkling 2 Small matches Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) on its intelligence index. The firm said that if the weights are released, the model would be the highest-scoring open-weights model developed outside China. [8]