US AI Startups Pursue Distinct Strategies In Frontier Models
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5/ The American startups each took a different path. SSI says nothing, just weird rumors. Reflection built models first, customers later. Thinking Machines was public from day one: strong technical blogs, then Tinker for fine-tuning, now Inkling (975B MoE, 41B active).
6/ I think the Thinking Machines playbook is the strongest. They already have customers on Tinker; the open model makes those services better, and nobody knows how to fine-tune this model better than the people who trained it.