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

Source:TechCrunch
Author:Julie Bort

Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S. a more robust set of open-weight options that aren’t Chinese.