Thinking Machines debuts Inkling Small open source AI model nearing performance of predecessor at about 1/4 size
THE SO WHAT
A 4× smaller open model with comparable performance compresses the hardware and latency budget for serious workloads. Teams over-rotated to giant frontier models should be re-running TCO and UX tradeoffs with SLMs like Inkling-Small in the mix.
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