Yes, and I think you would get much more effect by going for much smaller and cheaper firms.

Cerebras is only 700 people. I wouldn't buy it, but since it's only 700 people, you can probably build something like it with 1400 people in a couple of years if you set the goals right and hire the right people to lead it.

Euclyd, VSORA etc. exist. If they were buying American, why not Groq.

Then once one has good hardware without an enormous markup, then one can start thinking about building LLMs with it.