The "open source" part sounds nice, though we all know there's nothing particularly open about the models (or their weights). The barriers to entry remain the same - huge upfront investments to train your own, and steep ongoing costs for "inference".

Is the vision here to treat LLM-based AI as a "public good", akin to a utility provider in a civilized country (taxpayer funded, govt maintained, non-for-profit)?

I think we could arguably call this "open source" when all the infra blueprints, scripts and configs are freely available for anyone to try and duplicate the state-of-the-art (resource and grokking requirements nonwithstanding)