SMRTR AIOct 8, 2025PYMNTS

AI Startup Thinking Machines Unveils ‘Tinker’ to Cut AI Training Costs

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Former OpenAI executive Mira Murati's AI startup Thinking Machines launched Tinker, a training API that drastically reduces AI model fine-tuning costs by automating infrastructure management and using low-rank adaptation techniques that update only a fraction of model parameters. This allows smaller research teams and startups to customize open-weight AI models for specific tasks without expensive GPU clusters or extensive engineering expertise.

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