Teknium challenges US policy: will US companies be allowed to distill frontier models?
Teknium · x · 2026-09-16
Teknium replied to a US official's comments on competing with China with a pointed question: if the goal is for US companies to compete, will policy actually allow them to distill frontier models? The exchange highlights tension between frontier-model distillation restrictions and US competitiveness framing.
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