Building #AI systems is possible for only few enteprises that have deep pockets: Dario Amodei, CEO of AI company Anthropic predicted that the cost to develop the next generation of AI systems that will be released later this year would be around $1 billion. This trend suggests that the generation after that would cost more like $10 billion.
https://time.com/6984292/cost-artificial-intelligence-compute-epoch-report/