Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too
Venture capitalist Garry Tan has urged American open‑weight artificial‑intelligence research labs to begin creating distilled versions of the latest large‑scale models. He argues that making smaller, more efficient copies of frontier AI can broaden access and reduce costs, similar to practices already common in closed‑source settings. Tan’s call targets labs that publish their code and weights publicly.