Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small claims top spot among western open-weight models Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 6, 2026 Artificial Analysis Key Points Thinking Machines, the startup from former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is releasing Inkling 2 Small, a mixture-of-experts model with 594 billion parameters, 17 billion of which are active at any given time. On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, Inkling 2 Small scor