# Thinking Machines Lab

> Thinking Machines Lab is an AI research and product company building tools to make
> AI systems more widely understood, customizable, and generally capable. Its
> flagship developer product is Tinker, a managed API and Python SDK for
> fine-tuning and sampling open-weight language models (SFT, RL, distillation),
> plus Inkling, an open-weights model.

This llms.txt was generated by the API Evangelist enrichment pipeline from the
provider's public site and Tinker documentation (no provider-published llms.txt
was found).

## Products

- [Tinker](https://thinkingmachines.ai/tinker): Managed training/fine-tuning + sampling API with a Python SDK and CLI.
- [Inkling](https://thinkingmachines.ai/inkling/): Open-weights model.
- [Tinker Console](https://tinker.thinkingmachines.ai/): Web console; issues API keys; includes a Playground.

## Tinker API & SDK

- [Tinker documentation](https://tinker-docs.thinkingmachines.ai/)
- [Quick Start](https://tinker-docs.thinkingmachines.ai/tinker/quickstart/): install `tinker`, set `TINKER_API_KEY`, run SFT/RL.
- [API reference](https://tinker-docs.thinkingmachines.ai/tinker/api-reference/): ServiceClient, TrainingClient, SamplingClient, RestClient.
- [OpenAI-compatible inference (beta)](https://tinker-docs.thinkingmachines.ai/tinker/compatible-apis/openai/)
- [Anthropic-compatible inference (beta)](https://tinker-docs.thinkingmachines.ai/tinker/compatible-apis/anthropic/)
- [CLI reference](https://tinker-docs.thinkingmachines.ai/tinker/cli/): `tinker run`, `tinker checkpoint`.
- [Data Model & Permissions](https://tinker-docs.thinkingmachines.ai/tinker/data-model/)
- [Models & Pricing](https://tinker-docs.thinkingmachines.ai/tinker/models/)
- [Model Deprecations](https://tinker-docs.thinkingmachines.ai/tinker/model-deprecations/)
- [Changelog](https://tinker-docs.thinkingmachines.ai/changelog/)
- [Python SDK on PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/tinker/)
- [Tinker SDK repo](https://github.com/thinking-machines-lab/tinker)
- [Tinker Cookbook](https://github.com/thinking-machines-lab/tinker-cookbook)

## Company

- [Connectionism research blog](https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/)
- [News](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/)
- [Careers](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/thinkingmachines)
- [GitHub org](https://github.com/thinking-machines-lab)

## Security & Legal

- [Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure Policy](https://thinkingmachines.ai/security/disclosure-policy/)
- [security.txt](https://thinkingmachines.ai/.well-known/security.txt)
- [Privacy Policy](https://thinkingmachines.ai/legal/privacy/)
- [Terms of Service](https://thinkingmachines.ai/legal/terms/)