AnalysisPolicySeptember 11, 2026

Garry Tan urges US open-weight labs to distill frontier models

The Y Combinator CEO told CNBC he would "do nothing" about Chinese labs distilling US frontier models, arguing instead for an "American distillation regime" so US open-weight labs can do the same. He says closed labs had no permission when they ingested copyrighted human knowledge.

People · Garry Tan, Dario Amodei

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