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
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