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

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