How do you define 'small amount of capital'? Assuming you have to buy the processing from one of the big 3 (likely not possible to own the hardware outright), you're looking at 10s of millions of dollars per training run.
It's certainly not outside reality for the well-known software companies to have divisions working on it, but I don't think we're quite at the point where garage startups can afford the compute.
It's certainly not outside reality for the well-known software companies to have divisions working on it, but I don't think we're quite at the point where garage startups can afford the compute.