Inkling vs. Devstral Small 2

Inkling is an open-weights multimodal AI model from Thinking Machines built to support customization, agentic workflows, coding, reasoning, vision, audio, and enterprise AI use cases. The model is a Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 975 billion total parameters, 41 billion active parameters, 256 routed experts per MoE layer, and six routed experts active per token. It supports context windows up to 1 million tokens and was pretrained on 45 trillion tokens across text, images, audio, and video. Inkling is designed as a broad foundation model rather than a narrowly optimized benchmark model, giving it balanced capabilities across reasoning, coding, factuality, instruction following, vision, audio, tool use, and safety. Its controllable thinking effort lets developers adjust how much computation and generated reasoning the model uses, helping teams balance quality, latency, and cost for different production needs. The model can run agentic coding tasks, use tools, create web apps, generate polished multi-page artifacts, reason over long contexts, and work through iterative refinement loops. For multimodal tasks, Inkling can process images, answer questions about visual content, transcribe and reason over audio, follow spoken instructions, and combine visual reasoning with code-based tools such as Python. Thinking Machines trained Inkling for calibration, instruction following, factual reliability, refusal behavior, and safety across multiple modalities, including evaluations for dangerous capabilities and human-AI threat vectors. Inkling is available on Tinker for fine-tuning, with 64K and 256K context options, an Inkling Playground for testing, cookbook recipes, and support for multimodal post-training workflows. Its full weights are available on Hugging Face, and deployment support is available through APIs and infrastructure partners such as TogetherAI, Fireworks, Modal, Databricks, Baseten, SGLang, vLLM, llama.cpp, and transformers.

Devstral Small 2 is a condensed, 24 billion-parameter variant of Mistral AI's groundbreaking coding-focused models, made available under the adaptable Apache 2.0 license to support both local use and API access. Alongside its more extensive sibling, Devstral 2, it offers "agentic coding" capabilities tailored for low-computational environments, featuring a substantial 256K-token context window that enables it to understand and alter entire codebases with ease. With a performance score nearing 68.0% on the widely recognized SWE-Bench Verified code-generation benchmark, Devstral Small 2 distinguishes itself within the realm of open-weight models that are much larger. Its compact structure and efficient design allow it to function effectively on a single GPU or even in CPU-only setups, making it an excellent option for developers, small teams, or hobbyists who may lack access to extensive data-center facilities. Moreover, despite being smaller, Devstral Small 2 retains critical functionalities found in its larger counterparts, such as the capability to reason through multiple files and adeptly manage dependencies, ensuring that users enjoy substantial coding support. This combination of efficiency and high performance positions it as an indispensable asset for the coding community. Additionally, its user-friendly approach ensures that both novice and experienced programmers can leverage its capabilities without significant barriers.