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SOTA is very much about both training on well catered corpus (having it) and also hundreds of iterations which eventually make you into… several PHDs really.

This is ML/AI. Is not calling third party APIs. If you want any SOTA in any AI area you need to design your own strategy and models. Drilling down to get there is super painful and perhaps not something a paid-for-course can teach you.

Random is everywhere and so are unexpected engineering challenges. Mastering linear algebra alongside some geometry and still knowing classic algos is the starting point.