distillation
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What distillation leaves behind
Y Combinator's Garry Tan opposes regulating AI distillation and wants US open-weight labs to distill American frontier models through the front door.
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Distillation makes fast followers, never frontier leaders
Garry Tan wants US open-weight labs to distill frontier models legally. Distillation copies a teacher, so it follows the frontier but can't lead it.