Y Combinator's Garry Tan urges US open-weight AI labs to distill frontier models too
TechCrunch AI · rss · 2026-09-12
Y Combinator President Garry Tan argues that U.S. open-weight AI labs should also be allowed to distill frontier models. His reasoning: frontier models were themselves trained on public human knowledge, so access to capable AI should be "a form of public good." The statement pushes back on frontier labs' restrictive terms around distillation.
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