Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too
What changed
When it comes to Chinese AI labs using distillation techniques to extract knowledge from frontier model makers, Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan is hoping regulators stay out of it. AI labs should perhaps play the same game. Anthropic this week released its second report alleging that Chinese labs are engaged in “illicit distillation attacks,” hiding their identities to distill without permission and relying on fraud and stolen credentials to do so.
Why it matters
A concrete addition to Practical AI: Tools, Models & Frameworks: it changes what's available to builders today rather than being general commentary.
How it compares
Related prior coverage to compare against:
- Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains.
- As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions
- Anthropic’s Dario Amodei responds: doesn’t oppose open-weight models, but fears Chinese AI
Sources
- Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too (techcrunch-ai)primary