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Muse Ember: Our smallest, most efficient model (opens research.meta.ai)
Meta's entry-level model, described by SiliconANGLE as costing significantly less than the competition and the first trained using Muse Wonder.
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Thinking Machines Lab debuts Inkling 2 Small, a MoE model with 594B total and 17B active parameters, and plans to release weights next week
Context: Artificial Analysis says it matches Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) on its index and would be the top open model outside China once weights ship.
From thinkingmachines.ai: Thinking Machines Lab debuts Inkling 2 Small, a MoE model with 594B total and 17B active parameters, and plans to release weights next week after safety testing — Today we are introducing our second model generation with Inkling 2 Small. It is a Mixture-of-Experts model with 594B total parameters …
- Source
- thinkingmachines.ai (thinkingmachines.ai)
- Published
- First seen here
- Edition
- Thursday, November 5, 2026, ranked 6
- Status
- The company itself announced or confirmed this.
- Why it’s here
- New model from a lab raising $5B the same day, with an independent benchmark read.
- Topics
- AI, Open source
