Inkling-Small 🧠, GPT-5.6 price cuts 💸, Gemini Robotics 2 🤖

Thinking Machines launched Inkling-Small, a 276B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 12B active parameters that maintains advanced multimodal reasoning and a 1M-token context window while reducing compute needs. OpenAI cut prices for GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% and Terra by 20%, also improving API speed. Gemini Robotics released ER 2, enhancing automation with advanced AI and LLM integration for industrial precision.