Y Combinator chief Garry Tan: American open labs should also be allowed to "distill" other models
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The argument over who owns the "knowledge" of SI models is only beginning, and supporters of openness want intelligence to be a shared resource, not the monopoly of a couple of companies.
Tan believes closed labs should not decide how customers use the outputs of their APIs, and proposes an "American distillation regime," training open models on the outputs of frontier ones. His argument: the labs themselves did not ask permission when training on publicly available data. The position runs counter to Anthropic, which the day before accused Chinese companies of "illegal distillation" and called for tough measures.
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