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summary: "Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S. a more robust set of open-weight options that aren’t Chinese."
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# Garry Tan wants US open\-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too

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**Published:** 2026-09-13T15:44:38.000Z
**Category:** Industry
**Topics:** open\-source, llm, fine\-tuning, regulation, benchmark

## Summary

Tan wants smaller, American open\-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U\.S\. a more robust set of open\-weight options that aren’t Chinese\.

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/11/y-combinators-garry-tan-wants-u-s-open-weight-ai-labs-to-distill-frontier-models-too/>)
- [Discussion](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49685253>)
- [Discussion](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49690260>)
- [Story source](<https://www.interconnects.ai/p/open-source-ai-reading-list>)