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What is Inkling 2 Small?

Inkling 2 Small is an advanced multimodal large language model developed by Thinking Machines Lab to support autonomous coding, complex reasoning, visual understanding, and customizable AI applications. The model uses a sparse mixture-of-experts transformer architecture containing 594 billion total parameters and 17 billion active parameters, with 48 decoder layers and 384 specialized experts. Its architecture combines local and global attention mechanisms with a vision transformer that processes images alongside text within a shared representation. Inkling 2 Small supports a context window of up to one million tokens, making it suitable for analyzing extensive documents, large software repositories, and long-running agent workflows. Configurable reasoning effort enables users to adjust the computational resources devoted to individual tasks based on their complexity and performance requirements. Its agentic software engineering capabilities include generating code, debugging applications, implementing features, verifying changes, and operating development tools across extended workflows. The model can also create interactive websites, games, three-dimensional simulations, and visual applications while using image-based feedback to evaluate and improve its results. Advanced research capabilities allow autonomous agents to conduct machine learning experiments, optimize GPU kernels, evaluate training strategies, and iteratively refine technical solutions. Thinking Machines Lab trained the model using 8.4 trillion pretraining tokens and a large reinforcement learning process involving more than 17 million rollouts across coding, scientific reasoning, visual tasks, knowledge work, and tool use. Published evaluation results include 25.4% on FrontierCode 2.0, 72.1% on DeepSWE 1.1, 86.3% on SWE-Bench Pro v2 Hard, and an Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index score of 31.

What is GLM-5.3?

GLM-5.3 is Z.ai’s frontier coding model built to improve complex software engineering, long-horizon agent work, and advanced technical reasoning through scaled post-training. The model uses the same base model as GLM-5.2, with performance gains coming from additional post-training environments, more diverse tasks, and expanded compute on the existing training stack. Z.ai’s stack includes IndexShare for efficient long-context processing, SAO for reinforcement learning on long-horizon tasks, and slime for large-scale asynchronous post-training. GLM-5.3 is designed to perform better on work that resembles real engineering tasks rather than short coding exercises. Its training environments include production-style workflows where the model must diagnose bottlenecks, inspect documentation, use codebases, run experiments, implement changes, and produce measurable improvements. The model improves coding performance across public and private benchmarks, including Terminal Bench 3.0, DeepSWE, Agents’ Last Exam, and Z.ai Code Bench. GLM-5.3 also improves token efficiency, producing stronger agentic coding results than GLM-5.2 while using fewer output tokens in Z.ai’s internal evaluations. The model supports three reasoning effort levels, low, high, and max, and no longer supports disabling thinking. Z.ai recommends max reasoning effort for coding tasks, while applications using disabled thinking must migrate to enabled thinking before switching to GLM-5.3. The release also reports emergent cyber capabilities, including stronger vulnerability discovery and exploitation-chain reasoning, with open-weight release planned after safety evaluation and hardening. By combining scaled post-training, long-context infrastructure, long-horizon reinforcement learning, coding-agent workflows, benchmark improvements, reasoning controls, and ZCode integration, GLM-5.3 helps developers and researchers work on demanding coding and agentic tasks.

Media

Media

Integrations Supported

Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Tinker

Integrations Supported

Augment Code
CSS
Cherry Studio
Claw Code
Cline
ClinePass
Cosmos
Dessix
Hermes Agent
Java
JavaScript
Qoder
R
Sup AI
Tabbit Browser
TypeScript
Zo Computer
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API Availability

Has API

API Availability

Has API

Pricing Information

$0.30 per million input tokens
$0.30 per million input tokens, $0.03 per million cached input tokens, and $1.00 per million output tokens

Pricing Information

Free
Open source
Free Version

Supported Platforms

SaaS

Supported Platforms

SaaS
Windows
Mac
On-Prem
Linux

Customer Service / Support

Web-Based Support

Customer Service / Support

Web-Based Support

Training Options

Documentation Hub

Training Options

Documentation Hub

Company Facts

Organization Name

Thinking Machines Lab

Date Founded

2025

Company Location

United States

Company Website

thinkingmachines.ai/

Company Facts

Organization Name

Z.ai

Date Founded

2023

Company Location

China

Company Website

z.ai/

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AI Vision Models

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Small Language Models

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Categories and Features

AI Coding Models

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AI Models

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AI Reasoning Models

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Foundation Models

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Large Language Models

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