Soumith Chintala(@soumithchintala):Bridgewater, one of the worlds largest hedge funds, a Tinker customer talks through how they've carefully fine-tuned a model focused on what makes interesting financial news. Their fine-tuned model is more effective and cheaper than any frontier model.

Soumith Chintala

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Building new things @thinkymachines. Also dabble in robotics at NYU. Cofounded @PyTorch. AI is delicious when it is accessible and open-source.

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Soumith Chintala@soumithchintala

2026.06.30 20:18

Bridgewater, one of the worlds largest hedge funds, a Tinker customer talks through how they've carefully fine-tuned a model focused on what makes interesting financial news. Their fine-tuned model is more effective and cheaper than any frontier model.

Tinker@tinkerapi

2026.06.30 19:06

Sorting which financial docs are worth an analyst's time is surprisingly hard for frontier LLMs. With an expert-labeled dataset and on-policy distillation, Bridgewater fine-tuned a model to do it reliably and cheaply.