Zachary Lipton backs making model distillation fair game for US companies
zacharylipton · x · 2026-07-26
- Zachary Lipton reposts an argument that US policymakers should make distillation clearly fair game for US companies, regardless of terms of service.
- The quoted view says this would let US open-source AI catch up much faster.
- The thread is about policy interpretation around model distillation and open-source competitiveness, not about a specific product launch.
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