what an absolute huge win for open source AI in america. 1st ever model from OpenAI's ex CTO and its a 1T open model that reasons across text, code, images, video - but the best part isn't even how good it is...
its how you can fine-tune it to create something way better:
> you can adjust the thinking effort
> you can influence the way it approaches a coding problem
> you can perfect token spending so your task costs pennies
this solves a big problem that companies are facing now: they're spending $100Ks - $10Ms when they could just be fine-tuning a "less intelligent" model to do the same task at a fraction of the cost (and often better)
thats why bridgewater's using Thinking Machine's tinker product
i expect to see a lot of folks playing around with this model, finally an alternative to chinese open source!