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Developing story · 2 episodes · 4 Nov to 6 Nov

AI Race Accelerates with SWE-2 Flash and Inkling 2

The series tracks rapid advancements in AI model efficiency and scale, beginning with Cognition's SWE-2 Flash that triples speed while cutting costs, followed by Inkling's 2 Small model boasting 594 billion parameters and 17 billion active ones. After the latest release, the industry is pushing both larger parameter counts and more affordable, high-performance models, intensifying competition.

  1. Generative AI & Modelsnew

    Thinking Machines Lab releases Inkling 2 Small with 594B parameters and 17B active parameters

    Thinking Machines Lab introduced Inkling 2 Small, a Mixture-of-Experts model with 594 billion total parameters and 17 billion active parameters, supporting image inputs and variable effort. The…

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  2. Generative AI & Modelsnew

    Cognition releases SWE-2 Flash, 3x faster and cheaper than SWE-2

    Cognition announced SWE-2 Flash on November 4, a coding model designed for speed and cost efficiency. It is 3x faster than the larger SWE-2 model and costs one-fifth as much. The model features 276…

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CognitionThinking Machines LabInklingTinkerNVIDIAScale AIPerception EncoderBolya et al., 2025SWE-2 FlashInkling-SmallSWE-2Inkling 2 SmallInkling
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