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Re:Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' front... by fmnxl on Sunday September 13, 2026 @01:08PM (#49686136)
If it were so easy why aren't the frontier labs doing it themselves?
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Re:Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' front... by layer8 on Sunday September 13, 2026 @01:16PM (#49686205)
Distilled models are worse than the original, so you can’t fully compete. Also, if all frontier labs did that, there would be nothing left to distill from.
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