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Garry Tan's Distillation Call Admits US Open-Weight Labs Are Behind

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Originally published at vinpatel.com Everyone reads Garry Tan's push for US open-weight labs to distill frontier models as cheerleading. It's an admission: the word "too" means everyone else already does this, and the US doesn't. The tempo of that admission matters more than the ask itself. In 2023…

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  1. 2026-09-12 07:11 · DEV Community — AI
    Garry Tan's Distillation Call Admits US Open-Weight Labs Are Behind

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