Hardware's too expensive, and will be for a while, because all the big players are trying to get in on it.

* cue arguments: "'open weights' or training data'?"; "does the Meta offering count or are they being sneaky and evil?"; etc.

Hint: they won't, it would kill their company. The hype around OpenAI is based on people using it for free, at least at the start.

Heck, even drug dealers know this trick!