> You can start doing meaningful AI R&D on existing hardware with _one_ clever person. With the current hardware, yes. But then again countries could highly re

> You can start doing meaningful AI R&D on existing hardware with _one_ clever person. With the current hardware, yes. But then again countries could highly restrict all decently powerful hardware and backdoor them, and you need permission from government to run matrix multiplication above few teraflops. Trying to mess with backdoor is a war crime. A weak form of hardware restriction even happens now that Nvidia couldn't export to many countries.