---
title: thinkingmachines/Inkling-2-Small
url: https://recentmodel.com/models/thinkingmachines/Inkling-2-Small/
status: just landed
published: 2026-11-04T19:51:05Z
updated: 2026-11-13T00:29:33Z
source: https://huggingface.co/thinkingmachines/Inkling-2-Small
---

# thinkingmachines/Inkling-2-Small

Inkling 2 Small is a general-purpose multimodal model that accepts text and image inputs and generates text outputs. Mixture-of-experts, 594B total, 17B active (384 experts, 8 per token). Context: 1M tokens (config). License: apache-2.0.


- **Org:** thinkingmachines
- **Released:** 2026-11-04
- **Status:** just landed
- **License:** apache-2.0 (permissive)
- **Parameters:** 594.1B total, 17.0B active
- **Architecture:** MoE · 384 experts, 8/token · Inkling2ForConditionalGeneration
- **Context:** 1,048,576 tokens (config.json)
- **Task:** image-text-to-text · vision
- **Signal:** 330 HF likes · 7329 downloads

## Runs on

mixed: real files + estimate; sizing calculation, not tested.

- Q4 ~356.8 GB: Mac 512GB
- Q8 ~389.1 GB: no listed device
- FP16 ~1190.7 GB (estimated): no listed device

## Links

- [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/thinkingmachines/Inkling-2-Small)
- [Ollama](https://ollama.com/library/inkling-2-small)
- [MLX: mlx-community/Inkling-2-Small-4bit](https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Inkling-2-Small-4bit)
- [MLX: mlx-community/Inkling-2-Small-oQ4e](https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Inkling-2-Small-oQ4e)
- [GGUF: unsloth/Inkling-2-Small-GGUF](https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Inkling-2-Small-GGUF)