Why not both? You don’t need 1trillion allocated before you have a proof of concept to demonstrate your non-LLM model, and once you have a PoC you will definitely have the larger investors interested

You will need 100s of billions to make a viable POC.

You only need to train a range of small models in order to establish a plausible scaling law, IMO.

For a PoC? That sounds very unlikely. I think you’re off by at least 2–3 orders of magnitude

Let's wait 10 years and see.

In 10 years the world will not be the same.