New Delhi, Nov. 6 -- Artificial intelligence startup Thinking Machines Lab announced the launch of its second-generation model, Inkling 2 Small, according to a company blog post. The firm, founded in February 2025 by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, stated that the new release operates as a Mixture-of-Experts architecture featuring 594 billion total parameters, with 17 billion parameters active during computation.

"Inkling 2 Small far surpasses our previous models' scores on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score of 31, reflecting gains in performance on agentic coding, vision, knowledge work, and reasoning," the company stated in the blog post.

The post explained that the system handles image inputs and variable co...