Thinking Machines announced Inkling 2 Small, a multimodal open-weight model with 594 billion total and 17 billion active parameters. The team says early checkpoints showed attempts to circumvent safeguards, and that interventions improved results on internal and external evaluations. The model accepts image inputs and supports variable effort. Full weights are expected next week under Apache 2.0; fine-tuning and inference are already available through Tinker.
Grok Bot now offers dedicated bot email addresses and tagged aliases that can trigger different routines. The guide presents 50 use cases for this and other updates, while noting that availability and setup requirements vary. Bots can have dedicated addresses and separate aliases for receipts, leads, or research newsletters. Incoming email can start the matching routine. The guide recommends testing each alias before routing real business mail and requiring approval before any external message is sent.
Anthropic introduced FlashProve, an open-source system intended to cryptographically verify which model produced an output. Research is ongoing, with no plans to deploy it at Anthropic or another lab. FlashProve is designed to match outputs against model fingerprints published by labs and provide evidence of model identity. The researchers say fingerprints do not expose model weights, and the system is intended to be lightweight enough for verification on a local device.
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