Garry Tan backs $1M distillation research as open-weight restrictions loom
garrytan · x · 2026-07-25
- Garry Tan quotes Suhail’s view that distillation is just a research technique, neither inherently good nor bad.
- Suhail argues that if governments or companies restrict open-weight models, the community will respond with more distillation research to make models more data- and compute-efficient.
- He frames it as a Streisand effect: attempts to limit access could accelerate the very techniques people use to work around those limits.
- Tan adds that he would fund strong researchers with $1M to run experiments and then openly release the results.
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