Dev argues Tinker should launch a pretraining API, says OSS pretraining stack is a void
willdepue · x · 2026-09-27
willdepue says a pretraining API from Tinker would "rip so hard," likely monetized via quote/enterprise deals. His take: unlike RL, there's currently no good open-source pretraining stack, leaving a clear gap in the ecosystem.
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