Is there an AI garage startup path?

“There’s no viable garage startup path in AI anymore.” When I encounter this claim—and I encounter it often—my blood runs cold. It feels so persuasive. How could any startup compete with institutions that draw more power than a town to deliver a result that is rapidly degrading from magic to expectation? The barrier to entry is billions in computational resources, massive datacenters, chips that cost more than most companies’ entire budgets and access to which is a matter of internat...