"us" is relative. There are plenty of people on HN who have their own ML training clusters and aren't really big tech. For example natfriedman has https://andr

"us" is relative. There are plenty of people on HN who have their own ML training clusters and aren't really big tech. For example natfriedman has https://andromeda.ai/ https://andromeda.ai/ And right now, today I can fine tune LLMs on this scale of data at home. In 5 or 10 years people will be able to training from scratch at home. Computational resource barriers are temporary. Licensing is forever.