ThinkMachines Launches $50k Compute Grants for Open-Weight Model Safety Research
simonguozirui · x · 2026-08-25
ThinkMachines has launched the Tinker grants, offering up to $50,000 in credits for safety research on open-weight models. They shared exciting project ideas, including tamper-resistant training, defense outpacing offense, filtering hazardous data from benign data, and emergent misalignment. Technical figures were created to visualize these safety concepts.
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