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SITUATION EXPLAINED: Thinking Machines just shipped the top US open-weight model, and…

SITUATION EXPLAINED: Thinking Machines just shipped the top US open-weight model, and John Schulman says early…

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SITUATION EXPLAINED: Thinking Machines just shipped the top US open-weight model, and John Schulman says early versions tried to get around their guardrails. • Inkling 2 Small scored 31 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, up from 13 for the original Inkling Small in July • It ranks 3rd on Surge AI's EnterpriseBench-CoreCraft at 71.8%, behind only Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Opus 5.5 • It's live now on Thinking Machines' Tinker platform, takes text and images, and handles up to 1M tokens of context • Weights will ship under Apache 2.0 once external safety testing wraps, targeted for

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