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Y Combinator's Garry Tan proposes that U.S. open-weight labs should legally adopt distillation techniques from frontier models to create robust domestic alternatives, countering claims of illicit practices by Chinese actors. His stance challenges the current regulatory push for restrictions, arguing that since frontier models were trained on public data without permission, users should similarly be free to extract knowledge through legitimate technical means. This debate highlights a critical tension between proprietary control and open innovation in the development of accessible AI infrastructure.