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Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small claims top spot among western open-weight models
The Decoder — Thinking Machines, the startup from former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is releasing Inkling 2 Small, a mixture-of-experts model with 594 billion parameters. The company claims it's the strongest western open-weight model. Better agentic performance comes at a price, though, with token usage rising sharply.
Inkling 2 Small: 17A-594B trained in 68 hours on 12T tokens, beating Muse Spark
Latent Space — November 5, 2026 — Inside Inkling 2 Small’s training run and METR’s study of AI research at Anthropic.
Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base with 280 billion parameters as an open-source foundation model
The Decoder — Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base: a 280-billion-parameter MoE model pre-trained on 33.5 trillion tokens, shipped deliberately without fine-tuning, so developers can take it wherever they want.
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