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

**Published:** September 11, 2026
**Author:** Julie Bort
**Source:** TechCrunch — AI
**Language:** en-US
**HTML:** https://aiqazaqstan.com/en/articles/y-combinator-s-garry-tan-wants-us-open-weight-ai-labs-to-distill-frontie

Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S. a more robust set of open-weight options that aren’t Chinese.

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