Inkling 2 Small
A model that can see and refine what it builds
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Inkling 2 Small is Thinking Machines Lab's new 594B-parameter MoE model with 17B active, built for long-horizon coding, visual tasks, and agents. Available on Tinker for inference and fine-tuning.
PH · launched Nov 8, 2026 · 191 upvotes (top 1%) · 0 views
Niche: multimodal ai platforms and tools · 215 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▼ -47% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Model & infra
- Developer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Artificial Intelligence
- Development
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Could you build this?
No This is a 594B-parameter frontier model from a research lab. Building an equivalent requires massive training compute, data, and research expertise.
What it would actually take: Replicating it means pretraining a large mixture-of-experts model on trillions of tokens, which requires thousands of GPUs, a curated multimodal and code data pipeline, and a team of ML researchers for architecture, training stability, and post-training. Vibe coding can't provide any of those.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 42 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1 of 43 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 314 days after the earliest competitor.
- Cognition SWE-2 Flash · ph · 2026-11-09 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- LongCat-2.0 · ph · 2026-07-07 · 154 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Hemmingway AI · ph · 2026-09-22 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Mini-AGI · hn · 2026-09-21 · 277 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Hemmingway-1 · github · 2026-09-20 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Qwen3.8-Max · ph · 2026-08-03 · 276 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Strands Decider 2B · ph · 2026-10-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- VisionMorphic · ph · 2026-11-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
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