Inkling 2 Small

Inkling 2 Small

Thinking Machines Lab
MiniMax M3

MiniMax M3

MiniMax
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About

Inkling 2 Small is a multimodal AI model developed by Thinking Machines Lab for advanced reasoning, autonomous software engineering, visual understanding, and AI agent development. The model uses a mixture-of-experts architecture with 594 billion total parameters and 17 billion active parameters to balance intelligence and computational efficiency. It supports text and image inputs, a context window of up to one million tokens, and configurable reasoning effort for tasks requiring different levels of analysis. Its agentic capabilities enable autonomous code generation, debugging, website development, scientific research, and complex multistep workflows involving external tools. Inkling 2 Small also supports fine-tuning and reinforcement learning through Thinking Machines Lab's Tinker platform, allowing developers to customize the model for specialized applications.

About

MiniMax M3 is an open-weight multimodal AI model designed for coding, agentic workflows, long-context reasoning, and complex automation tasks. The model combines frontier-level coding performance, native multimodal understanding, and a context window of up to 1 million tokens. MiniMax M3 uses MiniMax Sparse Attention to improve long-context efficiency while reducing compute requirements for large-scale inputs. It supports text, image, and video understanding, making it useful for workflows that combine code, documents, visual references, and tool-driven tasks. The model is built for repository-scale reasoning, software engineering, autonomous task execution, tool calling, and multi-step agent workflows. MiniMax M3 helps developers, AI teams, and enterprises build capable agents that can reason across large contexts and work with multimodal information.

Platforms Supported

Windows Not Supported
Mac Not Supported
Linux Not Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Platforms Supported

Windows Supported
Mac Supported
Linux Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Audience

AI developers, machine learning engineers, software developers, autonomous agent researchers, data scientists, AI research laboratories, DevOps professionals, computational scientists, enterprise AI teams, and organizations seeking multimodal language models, long-context reasoning, AI coding agents, reinforcement learning, model fine-tuning, visual understanding, and autonomous research capabilities

Audience

MiniMax M3 is best suited for developers, AI engineers, coding assistant builders, enterprise automation teams, research teams, data teams, agent developers, and organizations that need open-weight AI for coding, long-context reasoning, multimodal understanding, tool use, repository analysis, and autonomous workflows

Support

Phone Support Not Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Supported

Support

Phone Support Not Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Supported

API

Offers API Supported

API

Offers API Supported

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

$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
Free Version Not Supported
Free Trial Not Supported

Pricing

$0.30 per million input tokens
$0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens
Free Version Supported
Free Trial Not Supported

Reviews/Ratings

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ease 0.0 / 5
features 0.0 / 5
design 0.0 / 5
support 0.0 / 5

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features 4.0 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • The multimodal side also makes it more flexible than a code-only model. Being able to work across text, images, video-style understanding, and code gives it more room to support real workflows instead of being boxed into one narrow use case. For agent builders, the best part is that M3 is clearly designed around tool use and multi-step execution. MiniMax specifically calls out autonomous task decomposition and tool invocation, which is exactly what matters when a model is powering coding assistants, workflow agents, or automated dev tools.

Cons

  • The main catch is infrastructure and trust. Even with sparse attention and MoE efficiency, this is still a large model, so deployment is not casual. I would also want to benchmark it on my own repos before depending on it for production work.

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Not Supported
In Person Not Supported

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Not Supported
In Person Not Supported

Company Information

Thinking Machines Lab
Founded: 2025
United States
thinkingmachines.ai/

Company Information

MiniMax
Founded: 2021
Singapore
www.minimax.io

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Integrations

Alibaba AI Coding Plan Not Supported
BLACKBOX AI Not Supported
Claude Code Not Supported
Clawd.run Not Supported
Cline Not Supported
ClinePass Not Supported
Factory Droid Not Supported
Fireworks AI Not Supported
Hermes Agent Not Supported
MaxHermes Not Supported
MiniMax Agent Not Supported
Ollama Not Supported
OpenClaw Not Supported
OpenCode Zen Not Supported
OpenTag Not Supported
Pi Agent Not Supported
Roo Code Not Supported
Tabbit Browser Not Supported
Tinker Supported
Vision Agents Not Supported

Integrations

Alibaba AI Coding Plan Supported
BLACKBOX AI Supported
Claude Code Supported
Clawd.run Supported
Cline Supported
ClinePass Supported
Factory Droid Supported
Fireworks AI Supported
Hermes Agent Supported
MaxHermes Supported
MiniMax Agent Supported
Ollama Supported
OpenClaw Supported
OpenCode Zen Supported
OpenTag Supported
Pi Agent Supported
Roo Code Supported
Tabbit Browser Supported
Tinker Not Supported
Vision Agents Supported
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