Sriram Krishnan

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The a16z Show · Sriram Krishnan on Open Source AI's Biggest Week Yet · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

But, and I'm going to steal this from Dean Mayer of Sequoia, who had a fantastic post, and please give him credit for this in his tweet.

He wrote this yesterday.

I think the situation which is bad today is that some of these models from other countries can train off American models.

Whereas if you are an American open weight model, it may be really confusing or challenging on whether you can distill off of other American models.

right?

So if you kind of have a really uneven ecosystem here, where if you're a Chinese model, you could probably get a bunch of reasoning traces.

But if you are, say, a new valley startup, and you want to use some reasoning traces, you know, you don't know what the legal situation is.

So one great idea, which I think came from him,

I think Ben Thompson of Stratechery had a similar idea today, was to basically say, how do we find a way to make distillation acceptable in any number of ways, whether you are getting, you know, outputs of other models, or sometimes it's more subtle.

You know, if you look at any American open source model today, they are using Chinese models as a teacher or in a way as a part of the fine tuning process.

And, you know, how do we make sure that is protected and enshrined?

So if you're an American student

in a model company, you have the same level playing field as the Chinese models.

Now, again, I think we're in this kind of this very interesting, unique moment in time.

But overall, I think these open-weight models are great for the ecosystem.

It's more choice.

It's people competing on price.

It's all the great things that innovation is supposed to bring.

Well, again, I don't speak for the government anymore.

I don't have any inside information.

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