Thinking Machines Lab develops tools and models that make advanced AI systems more customizable and capable. Its work includes Tinker, an API for training and fine-tuning models, and Inkling, an open-weight model designed for efficient experimentation.
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The Transluce founding-team member and former OpenAI safety researcher joined Thinking Machines Lab to work on safety and alignment.
September 14, 2026moveJang Hyun (Vincent) Cho joins Thinking Machines LabThe computer-vision researcher joined Thinking Machines Lab after nearly two years at Meta, where he worked on multimodal pretraining and the Muse and Spark model family.
August 26, 2026moveLilian Weng leaves Thinking Machines LabThe co-founder said she was stepping away after concluding that the pace and workload were not sustainable for her health.
July 28, 2026moveYanhong Li joins Thinking Machines LabThe former Ai2 predoctoral researcher has joined Thinking Machines Lab to work on pretraining.
July 20, 2026moveYilin Yang joins Thinking Machines Lab from OpenAIYang announced on X that they have joined Thinking Machines Lab to help build its next generation of voice models after working on speech post-training at OpenAI.
July 9, 2026moveYue Yang joins Thinking Machines LabYue Yang left Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI), where he was a research scientist on the PRIOR multimodal team, to join Thinking Machines Lab.
June 15, 2026moveLuke Metz returns to OpenAI from Thinking Machines LabThe learned-optimization researcher returned alongside Barret Zoph and Sam Schoenholz.
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