If you don’t have at least 1TB VRAM and a VPN to torrent model weights from China, you are asleep at the wheel, and ignoring the uncomfortable truth that open weight models may be banned this year.
Losing access to frontier models will be depressing and make a lot of people feel helpless - a few will have access to 100x productivity, and you will be stuck. Personally I cannot imagine doing work without frontier-level models right now.
Think of the narrative: Chinese model (GLM-6?) with Fable capabilities, no guardrails. It’s plausible.
Everyone is underpricing the chance that open models get banned. What are you going to do if it happens?