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Y Combinator addresses criticism about PearAI

Garry Tan, President & CEO of Y Combinator, addresses recent criticisms directed at the start-up PearAI regarding its handling of open source practices, particularly in relation to the company Continue. Initially, Tan supported PearAI without fully understanding the situation, but he later recognized the validity of the criticism, he writes. He collaborated with PearAI’s founders … Read more

Y Combinator embarrasses itself with AI startup

Y Combinator faces criticism for backing AI startup PearAI that copied an existing open-source project and released it under a more restrictive license. As reported by Julie Bort, PearAI founder Duke Pan admitted to cloning the code from the Continue project. The issue arose when PearAI initially used its own license, created with ChatGPT, and … Read more