Comment by cryptobruh

I don't understand your reasoning.

Those models are all trained by companies and open source primarily fine-tune them.

It's impressive that we can do that but the base is still a lot of money and experts from the best companies/ai experts we have.

There is a minimal chance that we will be able to somehow keep up if Google and co stop publishing or delaying publishing their papers and models.

There are communities forming etc. And it's impressive but the financial 'viability' is key to the current ai progress