Not at all. Maybe it’s lost to time, but most of the important models were created by academics, not companies, up till recently. GPT-J for example was trained

Not at all. Maybe it’s lost to time, but most of the important models were created by academics, not companies, up till recently. GPT-J for example was trained by one person acting alone (Ben Wang). I fine tuned GPT 1.5B on chess games. AI Dungeon fine tuned on fantasy novels. All of this type of work will become impossible with the specter of lawsuits hovering over their heads. EDIT: also most impactful older models were by one person (e.g. Yolo). What I like about ML is that lone wolves can have a big impact.