When do you expect that this will change? It certainly isn’t the case now. Rich folks don’t broadly have access to significantly better AI today.

This seems to be a common misconception - the rich and powerful have access to far more advanced technology than the average person. The economics just don’t support it.

Let’s say Bezos wanted a better computer chip, just for himself. Ok, fine, try to start a company, hire all the best people and buy all the fabs. It would be very expensive, not much fun and likely wouldn’t lead to good results.

Money actually doesn’t do as much as people think. It is great for buying things that already exist but the relationship between money and things that don’t yet exist is tenuous. Stop buying into the weakness thesis.

I think he meant who own the AI? Beside Stable Diffusion, all those fancy AI we saw recently are running on someone else computer. And it could be rate limited, more expensive, of offer specific feature for specific membership.

To continue on your example, Besos could probably buy OpenAI.

I don't see that as threatening by itself, but more a continuation of a particular class of people owning the means of productions.

Props to Stable Diffusion and I hope to see more of those type of AI, as opposed to fancy black box at the other side of an API.