So far it's been pretty "democratic" - I feel in no way disadvantaged because I can't train a foundation model myself. Actually the ecosystem is a lot better th

So far it's been pretty "democratic" - I feel in no way disadvantaged because I can't train a foundation model myself. Actually the ecosystem is a lot better than 25 years ago - there are open source (or source available) versions of basically everything you'd want to participate in modern AI/ML.