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

September 12, 2026

When it comes to Chinese AI labs using distillation techniques to extract knowledge from frontier model makers, Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan is hoping regulators stay out of it. In fact, he thinks U.S. AI labs should perhaps play the same game.

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