Headline : Open Source AI Has Founders—and the FTC—Buzzing

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Y Combinator is famed for its Demo Days, where portfolio companies pitch their apps and wares in hopes of growing from a fledgling company into the next Airbnb. But on Thursday, the startup incubator hosted a mélange of founders, venture capitalists, and US policymakers in its airy industrial space in San Francisco to tackle a defining topic for so many startups today: AI as the latest frontier in the battle between Big Tech and the little guys.

For many early-stage tech entrepreneurs, questions about AI can carry existential weight. Ever since ChatGPT was unleashed in late 2022, OpenAI’s technology, along with fast follows from Google’s and Microsoft’s AI teams, has dominated the conversation in this new era of artificial intelligence. But the increasing availability—and potency—of open source AI models has the potential to upend those dynamics.

On Thursday, the enthusiasm for open source extended beyond just YC-backed founders who stand to benefit from a less expensive way to harness generative AI’s power. Lina Khan, the chairperson of the Federal Trade Commission, was one of the most prominent advocates for open source AI at the event.

Speaking to a crowd of approximately 200 entrepreneurs, Khan said it’s not an exaggeration to suggest that nearly all of Y Combinator's most successful companies wouldn’t exist without open source software and the community behind it. The FTC has been focused on defining and exploring open-weights AI models, which are slightly less “open” than fully open source AI models. With open-weights models available to them, “smaller players can bring their ideas to market,” Khan suggested.

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