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AI Open Source or Closed? The Safety Trade-off

Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling 2 Small, featuring agentic coding and vision capabilities. Weights are currently closed, accessible only via the Tinker platform inference service. The company plans to release open weights under Apache 2.0 after one week of external safety testing.

WHY IT MATTERS

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Known and confirmed

  • Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling 2 Small, featuring agentic coding and vision capabilities.
  • Weights are currently closed, accessible only via the Tinker platform inference service.
  • The company plans to release open weights under Apache 2.0 after one week of external safety testing.

Unknown or unverified

  • 外部安全测试的具体结果是否会导致延期或修改发布策略。
  • 封闭权重期间的具体数据隐私政策及使用限制细节。
  • 开源许可证（Apache 2.0）对商业使用的具体约束条款。

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IndependentThinking 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↗
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