US open-weight AI labs may 'distill' frontier models too
y combinator ceo garry tan wants us ai labs to use distillation techniques on frontier models, opposing anthropic's call for regulation.
garry tan, ceo of y combinator, advocates for us open-weight ai labs to use distillation techniques on american frontier ai labs. he disagrees with anthropic ceo dario amodei's call for us regulators to crack down on distillation. tan believes it would provide the us with more robust open-weight options and balance frontier labs with open-weight models. he also notes that proprietary ai labs didn't ask permission to use human knowledge to train their models. tan's goal is to prevent a single powerful provider from controlling frontier ai.