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11 Sept

Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too

Y Combinator's Garry Tan proposes that U.S. open-weight AI labs adopt distillation techniques to create smaller versions of American frontier models, aiming to build a domestic ecosystem of open-weight alternatives independent of Chinese models.

techcrunch.com/Julie Bort/1d ago

10 Sept

Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek

Anthropic published a report documenting distillation attacks from Chinese AI companies Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek, with incidents increasing as competition in the AI sector intensifies.

techcrunch.com/Russell Brandom/2d ago