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Tinker Research and Teaching Grants (Thinking Machines Lab)
Premium dealThinking Machines Tinker: $5,000+ research grants for open-weight LLM training
Thinking Machines Lab funds research and open-source projects built on Tinker, its fine-tuning/training API for open-weight LLMs, with grants starting at $5,000, and gives instructors $250 in Tinker credits per student for classes.
How to claim this perk
Follow these steps through Tinker Research and Teaching Grants (Thinking Machines Lab).
Access: Direct application
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Researchers apply via the research grant Typeform
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instructors apply via the teaching grant Typeform
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applications are assessed on a rolling basis with replies within about a week.
Who can apply?
- Research or teaching that involves training open-weight LLMs with Tinker (academics, students, non-profit researchers).