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The USB-C ports on it are allegedly thunderbolt4 in all but name, waiting on certification: https://community.frame.work/t/thunderbolt-4/255/13

There are people in that thread saying they've run egpus off it.

To add to this...

USB-C is a specification and Thunderbolt is a certification. They are in process on the certification.

The processors they use support Thunderbolt and people have been using Thunderbolt accessories with it (you can see that in the forum).

Brad Ling on YouTube has confirmed they have theirs working!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C2tulk2mIE

It's physically a USB-C port so I'm not sure you can do that.

Thunderbolt 3 and 4 both use USB-C.

Right but it's USB C, not thunderbolt.

Do you mean USB 3? USB-C is the port, not the protocol.

"USB 3" is also ambiguous as hell. It's unfortunately talking about one of perhaps 10 different protocols, some of which are different depending on what year you are speaking of, because there's name collisions between incompatible versions.