I'm far from an expert in this area. But llama has been updated so anyone can hack with it on their m1 macbook (which many developers have). If someone updated

I'm far from an expert in this area. But llama has been updated so anyone can hack with it on their m1 macbook (which many developers have). If someone updated T5 to be as easy to dev against, then I am sure they would see similar community interest. Most people don't have the hardware or budget to access these specialized high vram GPUs.