# Thinking Machines releases Inkling 2 Small on Tinker

> Original title: ✨Thrilled to introduce Inkling 2 Small 594B-17B(A). It is a strong multimodal agentic model with native vision capability. We invite you ...

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- Published: 2026-11-06T00:01:40.000Z
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- Original: https://x.com/VictoriaLinML/status/2118493985828463000

## Summary

Thinking Machines released Inkling 2 Small, which scores 31 on the AA Intelligence Index, a large jump over its predecessor. The model is available for fine-tuning and inference on Tinker now, with full weights planned soon. The author, Victoria X Lin, says the model has native vision and an open-weights release under Apache 2.0 is coming next week.

## Post

✨Thrilled to introduce Inkling 2 Small 594B-17B(A). It is a strong multimodal agentic model with native vision capability. We invite you to try the model out through Tinker, and open-weights w/ Apache 2.0 license is coming next week.
https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/inkling-2-small/

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## Quoted post @thinkymachines

> Introducing Inkling 2 Small. Scoring 31 on the AA Intelligence Index, it's a big jump over its predecessor.
> 
> Inkling 2 Small is available for fine-tuning and inference on Tinker today, with full weight release planned soon.
> 
> https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/inkling-2-small

https://x.com/thinkymachines/status/2118489527362912566