"Thinking Machines Lab, a heavily funded startup cofounded by prominent researchers from OpenAI, has revealed its first product-a tool called Tinker that automates the creation of custom frontier AI models. "We believe [Tinker] will help empower researchers and developers to experiment with models, and will make frontier capabilities much more accessible to all people," says Mira Murati, cofounder and CEO of Thinking Machines, in an interview with WIRED ahead of the announcement."
"Big companies and academic labs already fine-tune open source AI models to create new variants that are optimized for specific tasks, like solving math problems, drafting legal agreements, or answering medical questions. Typically, this work involves acquiring and managing clusters of GPUs and using various software tools to ensure that large-scale training runs are stable and efficient. Tinker promises to allow more businesses, researchers, and even hobbyists to fine-tune their own AI models by automating much of this work."
Thinking Machines Lab launched Tinker to automate the creation of custom frontier AI models and broaden access to fine-tuning. The tool aims to remove the need for managing large GPU clusters and complex software tooling that typically support large-scale model training. Tinker currently supports fine-tuning of Meta's Llama and Alibaba's Qwen, letting users customize models with simple inputs. The team behind Tinker includes researchers who played a core role in building ChatGPT, and beta testers report that Tinker is more powerful and user-friendly than comparable tools. The goal is wider participation in frontier AI research.
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