# Bad Influence story: Lucas Beyer analyzes Inkling 2 Small's architecture and training budget

Active · 1 article · 1 source · First reported 11-08 04:03. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/b05c6cc8-c41d-4bd8-8276-dee14abc6940

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Latest update (11-08 04:03): Lucas Beyer breaks down Inkling 2 Small's architecture and training budget

Overview: Lucas Beyer posts a summary of a long analysis of Inkling 2 Small, which the analysis says has 594B total parameters, 17B active, and a 1M-token context window. The analysis reports 12.2T pretraining tokens and 3T RL tokens, and notes that Inkling 2 Small replaces the encoder-free design of Inkling 1 with a 292M ViT encoder. Beyer says he finds the ViT change sensible. The analysis flags many architecture and optimizer details as undisclosed.

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1. 11-08 04:03 · Lucas Beyer · [Lucas Beyer breaks down Inkling 2 Small's architecture and training budget](https://badinfluence.news/items/faoqdz6pxnlgt3glvhkt2z18d)
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