Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too
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open weights — A model whose trained parameters are published for anyone to download and run — unlike API-only models you can access but never possess.
distillation — Training a small, cheap model to imitate a big one's outputs, keeping much of the capability at a fraction of the cost.
Why it matters
This is a live policy fight over whether distillationTraining a small, cheap model to imitate a big one's outputs, keeping much of the capability at a fraction of the cost.Full definition → of frontier models should be restricted, which would directly affect what smaller labs and open weightsA model whose trained parameters are published for anyone to download and run — unlike API-only models you can access but never possess.Full definition → projects can legally build on top of frontier APIs.
