TechY Combinator’s Garry Tan wants U.S. open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too

Y Combinator’s Garry Tan argues that U.S. open-weight AI labs should also distill frontier models. He says frontier models were trained on publicly available human knowledge, making access to capable AI a form of public good.

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

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