# Thinking Machines releases Inkling 2 Small on OpenRouter

> Inkling 2 Small, a 17‑billion‑parameter multimodal mixture‑of‑experts model, is now available via OpenRouter's API.

Oossa · 2026-11-12 · https://oossa.com/en/thinking-machines-releases-inkling-2-small-on-openrouter

Thinking Machines Lab has added its Inkling 2 Small model to the OpenRouter platform. The model is an open‑weight multimodal mixture‑of‑experts system with 17 billion active parameters out of a total of 594 billion. It can process up to 1,048,576 tokens per request. The model is listed under the "thinkingmachines" namespace on OpenRouter.

## The facts

- Inkling 2 Small has 17 billion active parameters (594 billion total).
- Context window: 1,048,576 tokens.

## Why it matters

Developers can now run large‑scale multimodal reasoning tasks through a standard API without building their own infrastructure.

## Sources & references

1. [New on OpenRouter: Thinking Machines: Inkling 2 Small](https://openrouter.ai/thinkingmachines/inkling-2-small) – OpenRouter API, 2026-11-09
2. [huggingface/transformers Release v5.23.0](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/releases/tag/v5.23.0) – Transformers, 2026-11-13

Last updated: 2026-11-13