Inkling 2 Small

'Inkling 2 Small Explained: Performance, Weight Size and What to Check Before Release'

A plain-language reading of Thinking Machines Lab's Inkling 2 Small, announced on November 5, 2026. We cover the 594B-parameter MoE with 17B active, native NVFP4 pre-training, its place in third-party rankings, an estimate of the weight size, why Japanese companies ask for non-Chinese open-weight models, and what to check once the weights ship.