New on the radar: Inkling 2 Small appeared in models.dev (opencode)

Our hourly sweep found an id that was not there an hour ago.

Catalog id: opencode/inkling-2-small-free
Listed price: $0/$0 per 1M
Context window: 1,048,576 tokens
First observed by our sweep: 2026-11-07 01:39 UTC
Source: models.dev (opencode)

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It maps to Inkling 2 Small, already on our watchlist — registry note: live — Nov 5 · alert fired by hand at 00:31:51 UTC Nov 6 (event aw_mw48oyj3_o21wrwdnj7, 19 notifications) because no catalog we sweep listed it · launched Nov 5 on Thinking Machines' Tinker only (its post 'Introducing Inkling 2 Small'): Tinker Playground, plus fine-tuning and sampling on Tinker, with closed weights for now; Thinking Machines says full weights follow next week under Apache 2.0, after external safety testing and red-teaming · 594B total / 17B active MoE, image input, variable effort · Thinking Machines says it scores 31 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · its own table: FrontierCode v2.0 25.4%, DeepSWE v1.1 72.1%, SWEBench Pro v2 (Hard) 86.3% · early checkpoints ran on OpenCode as Fledge-Alpha (owner statement in the launch post), which closes the fledge-alpha stealth slot onto this row · no inkling-2 id in OpenRouter or models.dev at 00:30 UTC Nov 6 · Nov 6: Artificial Analysis lists it at 31 on its Intelligence Index (#4 of 29 comparable models), $0.30 / $1.00 per 1M, 1M context, ~150 tok/s; Vals AI scores it 56.1 (first-gen Inkling: 29.0).