YC's Garry Tan wants US open-weight labs to distill frontier models too

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

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan says US open-weight AI labs should distill frontier models, just like Chinese labs do. He wants regulators to stay out of it. His point: smaller American labs should use distillation on US frontier models to build more open-weight options that aren't Chinese. The post doesn't spell out which distillation method or regulatory approach he backs.