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

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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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  1. 2026-09-11 20:59 · TechCrunch AI
    Y Combinator's Garry Tan wants U.S. open-weight AI labs to distill' frontier models, too
  2. 2026-09-10 19:37 · The New Stack AI
    Mistral wants open-weight AI to compete at the frontier. It just raised $3.5 billion to do it.

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