> Can I make my own competitive LLM?

Yes, yes you can.

See the number of startups that have finetuned or trained an OSS model to build their business on.

“But you have to have compute!”

Ok, and you’re writing OSS on a rock with no internet connection?

The world has all kinds of barriers, but if anyone has a chance of competing on the LLM from it’s not going to be by getting rid of fair use.