Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too

Garry Tan urges U.S. open-weight AI labs to adopt frontier model distillation techniques. He argues that smaller American labs should use the same training methods as leading frontier labs to build a robust set of open-weight models independent of China. This push could accelerate domestic AI innovation and reduce reliance on foreign AI infrastructure.

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