Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too
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- 12 Sep 2026, 4:59 AM
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- 12 Sep 2026, 7:35 AM
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- TechCrunch
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- technology
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- https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/11/y-combinators-garry-tan-wants-u-s-open-weight-ai-labs-to-distill-frontier-models-too/
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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.
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