Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Makes the Technical Case for User-Owned Model Weights

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In a July 11 report, Thinking Machines Lab argued AI should 'extend human will and judgment' — distributed, customizable, and shaped by users rather than centrally controlled. Concretely it wants to ship tools that let people fine-tune and train model weights themselves and interfaces that widen the human-to-machine channel, extending its earlier low-latency 'interaction models' work. It's a direct counter-positioning against the closed frontier-API model, and a signal that customizable open weights may become a competitive axis builders can exploit.