willdepue: an open-source pretraining API would rip — OSS pretraining stacks lag far behind RL
willdepue · x · 2026-09-28
willdepue suggests that if Tinker launched a pretraining API "it would rip so hard," likely priced via quotes for enterprises. His core point: unlike RL, there's currently no good open-source pretraining stack — a clear gap in the OSS training ecosystem.
Related event: Developer Calls on Tinker to Launch a Pretraining API(2 posts)→
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