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

Y Combinator president Garry Tan is advocating for frontier AI developers to release distilled, smaller versions of their high-end models as open-weight resources. He argues that because these systems are trained on vast amounts of public data, the underlying technology should be accessible to the broader public rather than restricted to closed proprietary platforms.