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13 SEP 2026 · Hacker News · 412 pts · 236 comments ↗

Y Combinator's Garry Tan advocates for US open-weight AI labs to "distill" frontier models using training techniques, allowing for a more robust set of open-weight options that aren't Chinese. He believes this would give the US a competitive advantage in AI development, and that government regulation should not dictate what users can do with API calls to closed weight models. AI summary