Thinking Machines releases Inkling 2 Small model amid reported $5B fundraising round
Thinking Machines debuts Inkling 2 Small amid reported $5B fundraising push
Thinking Machines released Inkling 2 Small, a 594B-parameter model with 17B active parameters that automates AI training and research tasks. The company pre-trained it in 68 hours on GB300 NVL72 racks and finished a nine-day reinforcement learning workflow, and it is available now via the Tinker cloud service, with open weights planned next week. Business Insider reported the company is raising a $5B round led by Accel at a $40B valuation.
The piece pairs the model's training recipe, 68-hour pre-training on GB300 NVL72 racks and a nine-day RL workflow, with reported $5B fundraising, giving a concrete read on Thinking Machines' compute and capital strategy.
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