@miramurati: A year ago we set out to empower humanity with a focus on multimodal AI, custom models, and open science. We previewed …
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Mira Murati announces Thinking Machines Lab, a new initiative focused on multimodal AI, custom models, and open science, along with a tool called Tinker for training open-weight models.
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A year ago we set out to empower humanity with a focus on multimodal AI, custom models, and open science.
We previewed interaction models that collaborate the way people do. Tinker lets anyone train their own open weights models. We published our research on Connectionism.
Mira Murati (@miramurati): Thinking Machines Lab exists to empower humanity through advancing collaborative general intelligence.
We’re building multimodal AI that works with how you naturally interact with the world - through conversation, through sight, through the messy way we collaborate. We’re
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