Artificial Analysis reported that Inkling 2 Small generated 154 million output tokens during its Intelligence Index evaluation compared to a median of 89.8 million tokens among comparable models

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Anthropic priced Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2 at $8 per million uncached input tokens and $40 per million output tokens, representing a 20% cost reduction over Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, their predecessors

Anthropic priced Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 at $8 per million input tokens and $40 per million output tokens, representing a 20% cost reduction from generation 5.1

Nous Research evaluated Arete-27B using xAI's Grok 4.7 as a judge model to grade 803 prompts across seven value categories against facts from cited sources

Apple is considering lowering daily AI token spending limits for non-engineering teams from $100 to as low as $25

Apple is planning further internal budget reductions that could decrease daily AI allowances for certain engineering teams to $100

In October 2026, Apple reduced the daily artificial intelligence spending allowance for some engineering employees from $300 to $200

Some Apple employees expressed concern that internal AI token budget cuts signal broader corporate cost reductions and potential workforce layoffs

Apple established a procedure allowing employees who require higher daily AI token allowances for work to request senior leadership exemptions

Microsoft restricted internal AI spending allowances, while Meta Platforms introduced token budgets to encourage employee adoption of in-house AI tools

Inkling 2 Small scored 46.8% on EnterpriseOps-Gym, outperforming open alternatives like GLM-5.3 and Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5

Thinking Machines reduced its internal misbehavior score from 75.2 for the original Inkling Small to 14.9 for Inkling 2 Small, compared to 0.8 for GPT-6.1 Sol

Inkling 2 Small achieved an Intelligence Index score of 31 from Artificial Analysis, matching Gemini 3.8 Flash and positioning it as the top western open-weight model on the benchmark

On Surge AI's EnterpriseBench-CoreCraft benchmark, Inkling 2 Small scored 71.8%, placing third overall behind Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 at 77.4% and Claude Opus 5.5 at 74.4%

Training on Thinking Machines' Tinker platform costs $1.50 per million tokens at a 64K context window or $3 per million tokens at a 256K context window

On Artificial Analysis's AA-Omniscience v1.1 evaluation, Inkling 2 Small reduced its hallucination rate to 27% from the previous Inkling Small's 61%, while accuracy rose from 32% to 34%

Tinker's serverless pricing for Inkling 2 Small is set at $0.30 per million input tokens, $0.03 per million cached input tokens, and $1.00 per million output tokens

Baidu reported that ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base achieved the top score on 24 out of 30 base-model benchmarks in Baidu's unified evaluation pipeline

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Base scored 60.0 on HELMET-Rerank, outperforming ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base which scored 56.2 in Baidu's evaluation pipeline

Baidu self-reported that ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base scored 78.4 on MMLU-Pro, surpassing DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Base at 69.2, Hy3-preview-Base at 66.9, and MiMo-V2.5-Base at 65.7

METR based its 11-week assessment of Anthropic, conducted between August and October 2026, on confidential research, employee interviews, and performance data from unreleased models