🧰 Tinker

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• [AINews] Agents disprove Polysemanticity; greatly improve Interpretability & Alignment
  article2026-10-16

  Thinking Machines fine-tuning platform

• [AINews] TypeSafe/Jev at >$100M ARR, $7.5B valuation 3 weeks after launch
  article2026-10-10

  Post-training service; price cuts up to 70%; added GLM-5.3-Flash and DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash

• The current balance of power in open models
  article2026-09-21

  Finetuning API offered by Thinking Machines, part of the open model post-training economy

• [AINews] AEF-1 standard emerges for Third Party Evaluators, as Xai, OpenAI, and Anthropic all cosign
  article2026-09-15

  Platform used with physics-based verifiers to train models that design power transformers meeting real-world specs at low cost

• Teaching Everyone to Fish for Tokens
  article2026-08-17

  The most popular finetuning API today, used by people to finetune models like DeepSeek V4 Flash, Inkling Small, or GLM 5.X for specific agentic tasks.

• Latest open artifacts (#23): Laguna S2.1, Inkling, & Kimi K3 show the utility of open models on the Pareto frontier
  article2026-08-02

  Thinking Machines' commercial fine-tuning offering, used as the vehicle for their open model finetuning service which is making hundreds of millions in revenue per year

• Open models recap: more on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, Xi's WAIC speech, distillation, the open-closed gap, and what's next
  talk2026-07-22

  Thinking Machines' framework/approach for making models fine-tunable for real tasks, discussed as a research direction Nathan recommends open model builders pursue.