GoKawiilThe mission of Thinking Machines is to build AI that extends human will and judgment.
Artificial intelligence can do more every day, but deciding what it should do is up to us: individuals, organizations, humanity as a whole. These decisions require knowledge and judgment that people acquire through continuous contact with the work, increasingly done alongside AI. Shaping the goals of advanced intelligence is also a continuous process of feedback, learning, and realignment.
Most AI in use today is trained in a handful of places and then frozen. It isn’t shaped by the people it serves, and doesn’t learn much from the work they do together. Extending human will and judgment calls for AIs as diverse and distributed as people themselves are. This is the path we have chosen.
To progress on that path, we are pursuing these technical directions:
We train strong models , advancing capabilities such as multimodal interaction and customizability. Sharp instruments extend human will, and human judgment needs to shape models that compete on the frontier.
, advancing capabilities such as multimodal interaction and customizability. Sharp instruments extend human will, and human judgment needs to shape models that compete on the frontier. We build tools that enable people to make AI their own, customizing models to serve their unique needs. This includes the ability to train model weights.
that enable people to make AI their own, customizing models to serve their unique needs. This includes the ability to train model weights. We develop interfaces that broaden the communication channel between human and machine, allowing personal judgment to continuously influence the work of AI.
that broaden the communication channel between human and machine, allowing personal judgment to continuously influence the work of AI. We publish research for the scientific community, because the power to shape AI requires deep understanding of how it’s made.
We believe the future worth building is human — shaped by human knowledge, guided by human will, and decided by human judgment. What follows is the case for that future, and the work we’re doing to bring it about.
Bringing intelligence to knowledge
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