gg2
dealroom.co

Garry Tan urges open-weight AI distillation

The gist

Garry Tan said US regulators should "do nothing" about AI distillation.
The split matters because it decides who controls frontier model access.

How it unfolded

  1. 2023The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft over unauthorized use of its articles in model training data.
  2. 2025A consortium of book authors settled a lawsuit with Anthropic over a similar training-data claim.
  3. Sep 10, 2026Garry Tan spoke at Y Combinator's Demo Day, arguing frontier AI models built on public human knowledge should function as "a form of public good."

Sources

Read the full story in the app gg2 — free on the App Store