[freecodyx]

it make sense, in order to come up with a base model, you will need a lot of quality training data, tons of compute.

the role of an AI startup is to come up with ideas, thus useful products. Most of existing products pre-AI, are also front ends to existing operations systems and exiting databases, because creating the whole stack does not make sense. At least we have state of the art open models that we can use freely