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Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too

TheJCDenton Hacker News 2026-09-13 23:44 2 views

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/11/y-combinators-garry-tan-wants-u-s-open-weight-ai-labs-to-distill-frontier-models-too/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49685253 Points: 140 # Comments: 60

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