Thinking Machines launches $50k grants for open-weights safety research
AccBalanced · x · 2026-08-26
Thinking Machines launched Tinker grants of up to $50,000 for safety research on open-weight models. Key interest areas include differential acceleration of defensive vs. offensive capabilities, large-scale hazardous data classification, tamper-resistant safety training, and reward hacking research.
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