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

# Y Combinator Leader Pushes for More Open Access to Advanced AI Garry Tan, who leads the startup accelerator Y Combinator, believes that powerful AI models should be more widely available to the public because they're built using knowledge that belongs to everyone anyway. He's arguing that major AI labs should create smaller, more accessible versions of their best AI systems so that startups and smaller companies can compete fairly with tech giants. Essentially, he wants to prevent a few big companies from hoarding the most capable AI tools.