Garry Tan backs U.S. distillation of frontier models

YC CEO Garry Tan says U.S. open-weight AI labs should be allowed to use distillation on frontier models to create more non-Chinese open options and treat capable AI as a public good. He opposes regulatory bans on distillation while rejecting illicit credential theft.

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