Y Combinator CEO: "No need to take action" on China's distillation of US AI models

TechFlow reports, September 11 — Citing CNBC, Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan stated at YC's annual Demo Day that regarding Chinese companies (including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax, etc.) distilling OpenAI and Anthropic models, he chose to "do nothing," and advised regulators to instead focus on maintaining the commercial balance between open-weight and frontier models. Tan also remains skeptical of AI doomsday narratives, asserting that cybersecurity is currently the most pressing risk, while employment disruptions and economic shifts driven by AI will take decades to truly permeate society.