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What changedGarry Tan’s open-weight argument now comes with a more concrete prescription. TechCrunch reports that the Y Combinator CEO wants smaller American labs to use distillation techniques on US frontier models, with the aim of building a stronger set of open-weight options that are not Chinese. That is a proposed development strategy, not a new programme or policy, but it gives the debate a much sharper question: can distillation widen access without simply concentrating capability in the labs that already have the biggest models?
Sources and evidence- TechCrunch reports: TechCrunch reports that Garry Tan wants smaller American open-weight AI labs to use distillation techniques on American frontier AI labs.
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