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

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan told CNBC and TechCrunch that U.S. open-weight AI labs should be allowed to use distillation techniques on frontier models, proposing an American “distillation regime” rather than regulatory crackdowns. He argued that access to intelligence trained on broadly available public data should function more like a public good and warned against a single proprietary company monopolizing frontier AI capabilities.