Amid accusations that Chinese firms like DeepSeek and Moonshot AI distilled outputs from OpenAI and Anthropic models, U.S. security agencies issued a joint advisory warning about the practice. Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan pushed back, arguing regulators should avoid restricting distillation and instead focus on balancing open-weight and frontier AI models, while suggesting smaller U.S. labs use similar techniques on domestic frontier models.
news.slashdot.org
· 2026-09-14
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan told CNBC he opposes any regulatory crackdown on AI model distillation, even suggesting U.S. open-weight labs should distill from American frontier labs the way Chinese firms reportedly do. His comments come as Anthropic released a report accusing Chinese labs of illicit distillation attacks using stolen credentials, with CEO Dario Amodei calling for regulators to intervene.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-11
Garry Tan, CEO of Y Combinator, said at the accelerator's Demo Day that regulators should take no action against AI model distillation, even as OpenAI and Anthropic accuse Chinese firms like DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax of copying their models' outputs to train cheaper alternatives. His comments come days after the NSA, CISA, and FBI issued a joint advisory warning about the practice.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-11
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