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Today we’re announcing research and teaching grants for Tinker: credits for…

Source: thinkingmachines.ai
Author: Thinking Machines
Date: Published Oct 29, 2025

Context

Thinking Machines announced Tinker grants on October 29, 2025, to help students and researchers pay for experiments that customize language models. Teaching grants offered $250 in service credits per student, while research grants started at $5,000 for research projects and open-source software using Tinker. These credits address the cost of running training experiments through the service. The announcement includes separate application links for instructors and researchers and describes rolling assessment.

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open weights — A model whose trained parameters are published for anyone to download and run — unlike API-only models you can access but never possess.

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