# Thinking Machines releases Inkling 2 Small through Tinker

_Published Thursday, November 5, 2026 at 9:07 PM EST · AI · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

![Introducing Inkling 2 Small — Primary](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/inkling-2-small/images/cover-social.png)

Thinking Machines introduced Inkling 2 Small, making the image-capable reasoning model available on Tinker Playground and for fine-tuning and sampling through Tinker. The company says the model has 594B total parameters, with 17B active, and supports variable reasoning effort.

The company reports improvements in coding, vision and knowledge work, including using visual feedback to refine websites, games and 3D designs. Access initially comes with closed weights. Thinking Machines intends to release the full weights under Apache 2.0 next week after external safety testing and red-teaming; downloadable checkpoints will accompany that release.

## Sources

- [thinkingmachines.ai](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/inkling-2-small/)

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