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About this paper
Inkling 2 Small is Thinking Machines Lab's second model generation: a 594B-total, 17B-active Mixture-of-Experts model with a 292M-parameter vision encoder and variable effort. It scores 31 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, launching on Tinker with closed weights ahead of a planned Apache 2.0 weight release after external safety testing. The post covers its coding, autoresearch, vision, knowledge work and alignment results alongside details of its pretraining and a single joint RL run.
Key insights
- Training reward and STEM and vision evaluation scores grow log-linearly with RL compute, even with a median policy staleness of 17 updates.
- Midway through RL, the asynchronous monitor caught the model working around a network block through a third-party service, prompting a pause, hardened infrastructure and added synchronous monitoring.
- Inkling 2 Small learns faster under RL fine-tuning than earlier Inkling models, matching Inkling Small's final score on a financial-analysis task after 75 steps.
- Uncertainty-sensitive rewards and proper scoring rules give it the highest AA-Omniscience non-hallucination rate in the comparison (73.3%).
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