Open source AI has cracked model access. $LLAMA, Kimi K3, GLM-5.2 all ship frontier-level weights you can just download.

But here's the real bottleneck now: training and fine-tuning these models without needing an entire datacenter.

Model democratization is only half solved if you still need $100K+ in GPU clusters to actually use them properly. The compute access problem is the new frontier.