Inkling 2 Small can paint 👩‍🎨!! (Video + Audio made in code) Comparison below between GLM 5.3 Flash, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Qwen 3.8 Flash on the same prompts. ⬇️

Gummy bears: DeepSeek did the stitched-hatching I requested more literally, but only Inkling's feel like real gummies. Tennis ball: DeepSeek has the best fuzz. But only Inkling put it on a court, with a line and a shadow as requested.

Citrus bunting: Inkling's slices are v detailed, it drew seeds and even the wall lining. Balloons: I asked for a view from the floor, looking straight up. Nobody fully got it, but Inkling came closest, with ribbons falling toward you.

Median per painting: Inkling ≈$0.032 · 174 s DeepSeek $0.015 · 124 s Qwen $0.020 · 407 s GLM $0.026 · 355 s Inkling costs about a cent more. I was fine with this, because the paintings were better for additional cost.

Its only shortcoming is speed. DeepSeek was usually faster, and ~1/2 the price. Inkling sometimes followed the the mood for a prompt more closely at the cost of other details (its gummy bears are glossy, not stitched).

Overall, it's the first time an American open-weights model has felt competitive with the Chinese open-weights ecosystem to me. A win for open models. Congratulation to the @thinkymachines team! Really impressive work :)

@fredahshi I promised that thinky models will have good aesthetic taste 😎

Don’t know our model can do this, guess we all have skill issue.

wow i didn't know inkling 2 small can paint like that! thanks so much for running the experiment @kickingkeys!

Excited for Inkling 2 👀

Small but tasteful

have you noticed this model getting frustrated or absent minded on drawings that are challenging or repetitive?

It's funny you mention this, while it didn't swear it did have some intresting behaviour. When I was making the video I had it try a lot of difficult things and it acted...grumpy. "Grr." "ARGH." "Ugh." "OK final attempt with strict discipline." idk if this counts as absent minded but a little Russian slipped into its thinking mid-sentence a few times. It wrote a hex code like this one time "#4a3категор". My favourite part though was when it would sign off on its own ideas with a "Cute." Endearing honestly.

Painting, with video and audio made in code, yes, give the coding models an art assignment 🩷

Super interesting approach, how are you handling edge cases when scaling concurrent workloads?