I don't think this is freedom - as long as some company with a million time the resources that I have can train a better model, I'm only ever using the models s

I don't think this is freedom - as long as some company with a million time the resources that I have can train a better model, I'm only ever using the models someone with power gives me, no matter how small a device the model runs on. Having larger models and adapting the weights is one thing but the innovation is mostly on the side of large entities.