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Needs review594B-parameter Inkling 2 Small launches closed, with open weights promised next week
The 60-second version
- Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling 2 Small on Nov. 5, a 594-billion-parameter model it says scores 31 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, but its weights stay closed until a promised Apache 2.0 release next week.
- A preprint from Xi'an Jiaotong University and WeChat AI at Tencent says its LoCo fine-tuning method cut a 7-billion-parameter model's math answers by 41.7% to 45.4% while maintaining or improving accuracy.
- Two-person lab Linum says its P-JiT 21K, a 2.18-billion-parameter open image model, took about $21,000 of compute for the whole release, pretraining with restarts plus post-training.
