Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants U.S. open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too
THE SO WHAT
Framing access to capable distilled frontier models as a public good raises the bar on what “open-weight” is expected to mean. If you’re betting on proprietary access as a durable moat, plan for a world where high-capability distilled models are broadly available and differentiation shifts to data, distribution, and workflow depth.
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