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Mon, 3 Aug 2026
Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling-Small: A 276B Open Weights Multimodal MoE Model
A compact yet fully multimodal model designed to run efficiently on accessible hardware configurations.

Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen3.8-Max: A 2.4 Trillion Parameter MoE Model
Alibaba launches Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter Mixture of Experts model featuring a 1M-token context window, flexible API pricing, and a smaller 27B variant for local hardware.

Thu, 27 Aug 2026
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Fri, 6 Nov 2026
Thinking Machines Launches Inkling 2 Small MoE Model
Thinking Machines Lab has released Inkling 2 Small, a 594B MoE model with 17B active parameters, running on Tinker with Apache 2.0 weights planned.

Baidu Releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base 280B MoE Model
Baidu launches ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base, a 280B sparse MoE base model with 14B active parameters, trained on 33.5T tokens.
