I think it's mostly about having deeper pockets than being clever or original when it comes to A.I. (though these guys just got $15m fwiw).

But this is one thing that worries me about A.I speaking as an indiehacker.

Being scrappy won't soon cut it anymore. Right now you can bootstrap a solid product for $15K, at least a MVP. Soon with the amount of GPU and other resources required to train these models you'll need a min $1M budget and no amount of jugaad will be able to cut it.