There is way too much money involved for anyone with the capability to not get into the area. Intel is starving for growth opportunities, investing heavily into

There is way too much money involved for anyone with the capability to not get into the area. Intel is starving for growth opportunities, investing heavily into the GPU space and very enterprise oriented. AMD is shitting the bed but might find partners in this space. Apple is a dark horse and they are very much into the on-device AI abilities. Amazon, Microsoft, Google can all throw endless amounts of software and hardware at the problem and there have been many advances in the AI space regarding training smaller models that can compete with the big ones. Open source is going nuts in this space, as well as a ton of academic research. This is likely the biggest dark horse. Major advances are happening weekly.