Big companies will have better technology for a long while because of all the money they can throw at it, but there's no reason to expect an ecosystem of useful

Big companies will have better technology for a long while because of all the money they can throw at it, but there's no reason to expect an ecosystem of useful open/instanced AI systems to mature along side it. We've seen that start with Stable Diffusion and now also with LLaMa, and we're only at the beginning of the road. Yes, big companies that spend lots of money and are big targets for lawsuits and regulation will exercise a lot of control over what their state-of-the-art products offer. There's no getting around that. But that's not all we have to look forward to by any means.