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Thinking Machines Lab advocates for model weight ownership and autonomous research

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Thinking Machines Lab is advocating for individuals and organizations to retain ownership of their model weights. They have developed NeuroVFM, a foundation model trained on over 5 million clinical brain scans. The lab also proposes "Loop engineering" as a method to replace traditional prompt-and-read interactions with autonomous research loops. AI

IMPACT Promotes a shift towards decentralized model ownership and autonomous research loops.

RANK_REASON The item discusses a lab's advocacy and a proposed engineering method, rather than a direct release or significant industry event.

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Thinking Machines Lab advocates for model weight ownership and autonomous research

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    📰 Latent — The car that never shipped built Apple's AI chips • Thinking Machines Lab makes the case for owning your model weights • NeuroVFM: a foundation model

    📰 Latent — The car that never shipped built Apple's AI chips • Thinking Machines Lab makes the case for owning your model weights • NeuroVFM: a foundation model trained on 5.24M clinical brain scans • "Loop engineering" wants to replace prompt-and-read with autonomous research lo…

    LINKS latent.steenbergen.ai/…/2026-07-13 latent.steenbergen.ai/archive

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