Not at all, only passion is needed. Look at websites like CivitAI. Its literally just a front-end + a S3 bucket backend that allows people to share and downloa

Not at all, only passion is needed. Look at websites like CivitAI. Its literally just a front-end + a S3 bucket backend that allows people to share and download large stable-diffusion models (100MB-8GB). The website founder was not an AI guy, he was a web-dev background and former founder. The website is already a huge success, forcing the incumbent (Huggingface, backed by Amazon) to try and hurriedly copy its features.