Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S. a more robust set of open-weight options that aren’t Chinese.
He makes good arguments, could also add that it would be a source of token sales for the big labs.
but with some misplaced assumptions.
Open source shouldn’t discriminate on contributors or nationalist biggotry of permitted users.
Open weight models can/are being served from US datacenters.
Cursor was bought by mechahitler for $60B because it made an LLM, by taking Kimi 2.5 source, and retraining with free user data that was mostly distilled from frontier closed but other global models as well.
He makes good arguments, could also add that it would be a source of token sales for the big labs.
but with some misplaced assumptions.
Cursor was bought by mechahitler for $60B because it made an LLM, by taking Kimi 2.5 source, and retraining with free user data that was mostly distilled from frontier closed but other global models as well.