Is that true if we move to local models?
Unless you intend to run your inference on a potato battery, you're beholden to AMD/Apple/Nvidia/Intel.
Yes, big tech controls them. Chinese ones will be trained to say certain things about Uyghurs and Taiwan, American ones about communism and Palestine.
Unless you intend to run your inference on a potato battery, you're beholden to AMD/Apple/Nvidia/Intel.