Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants U.S. open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too

September 8, 2026 · 9:31 am 3 sources

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• Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants U.S. open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too
  TechCrunch · September 11, 2026 20:59
  Tan argues that frontier models themselves trained on public human knowledge so access to capable AI should be "a form of public good."

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