Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants U.S. open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan urges US open-weight labs to distill frontier models and regulators to stay out, countering Anthropic's crackdown calls.
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan told CNBC he would "do nothing" about Chinese labs distilling frontier models and floated an "American distillation regime" letting US open-weight labs do the same to American frontier labs. Anthropic this week released its second report alleging Chinese labs conduct "illicit distillation attacks" using hidden identities, fraud, and stolen credentials, and CEO Dario Amodei has called for US regulators to crack down. Tan argued closed labs cannot dictate what customers do with API outputs, noting frontier labs trained on copyrighted material without permission, and called a single monolithic proprietary provider the true AI doomer scenario.
- Tan: "I would do nothing" on Chinese distillation; wants US open-weight labs free to distill too.
- Anthropic alleges Chinese labs use fraud and stolen credentials for illicit distillation attacks.
- Tan says dictating customer API usage is overreach, and frontier labs ingested copyrighted data unpermitted.
- Tan's doomer scenario is one monolithic proprietary AI provider controlling frontier capability.
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Tan argues that frontier models themselves trained on public human knowledge so access to capable AI should be "a form of public good."
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