It's always been the case that corporates have more resources, but that hasn't stopped mere mortals outcompeting them. All that's required is that the basic too

It's always been the case that corporates have more resources, but that hasn't stopped mere mortals outcompeting them. All that's required is that the basic tools are within reach. If we look at the narrow case of AI at this point, then the corporates have an advantage. But the current model of huge, generic, trained models that others can inference, or possibly just query, is fundamentally broken and unsuitable. I also believe that copyright issues will sink them, either by failing to qualify as fair use or through legislation. If there is a huge LLM in our future is will be regulated and in the public domain, and will be an input for other's work. The future not only consists of a multitude of smaller or refined models but also machines that are always learning. People won't accept being stuck in a (corporate) inference ghetto.