I too would be interesting in donating money toward this. Given that the price since the original training effort has already dropped to ~$20 million, and that

I too would be interesting in donating money toward this. Given that the price since the original training effort has already dropped to ~$20 million, and that (a) the fundraising will take time, and (b) improvements are being made every day with regard to resource usage, you could probably get away with aiming for a much lower number. Pulling a number out of my arse, I'd guess that training a comparable model will only cost $1-5 million in 12 months time, with the hardest part of doing so once you have the funds being acquiring the training data.