I don't agree. Within a couple years wealthy technocrats will absolutely be spinning up low cost minimal ad LLMs in their garage. Running these things certainly

I don't agree. Within a couple years wealthy technocrats will absolutely be spinning up low cost minimal ad LLMs in their garage. Running these things certainly isn't cheap, but most of the cost is in training which can be crowdfunded and the model released for free. At which point anyone with 100k can buy a computer that can run the model commercially. We're also seeing smaller models with equivalent performance such as the recent one from facebook. If that trend continues it will be even easier for small groups to train and run models with minimal advertising.