Tinker
@tinkerapi
I tink, therefore I am.
Post-training API by @thinkymachines
Joined January 2026
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We highlighted how OpenResearch+Tinker make exploratory research easier, but equally important is auditing: testing dozens of competing published methods in an automated way with the compute cost forecast to within a dollar.
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Using Tinker with an autoresearch loop is a really effective way to reproduce post-training papers at predictable costs
Today there are dozens of self-distillation methods all claiming improvements over each other, and it’s hard to establish which claims hold up
We gave agents a Tinker budget to reproduce self-distillation results across models and training setups. With just a few user prompts, they reproduced SDFT’s continual learning benefits across Qwen3-8B and Qwen3-30B-A3B over multiple seeds, and investigated SFT’s failure modes.
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