Some things to expect in 2025

> we will see more focused efforts to create truly free generative AI systems, perhaps including the creation of one or more foundations to support the creation of the models

What are the biggest barriers to making this a reality? The training data or the processing power?

Which open-source projects, if any, are the farthest along in this effort?

The costs in hardware and electricity are incredible. To do the same as the big companies are doing is impossible, there is no funding to achieve it.

The question is if it's needed at all to get good results.

Also the big companies have many lawyers so they feel confident to systematically violate copyright, but a smaller entity could probably not afford the same risk.