someone will keep putting out consumer level models. Once you have the larger models, you can derive the smaller onces.

Europe will definitely be interested in democratizing these things if China starts losing interests; from there, there'll be more countries looking to keep their citizens entrained in their own Country's infrastructure.

It'll especially be true if the memory cartel keeps prices high and NVIDIA tries to gouge higher memory models.

It's an arms race everyone can join because PC hardware was mostly democratized in the last decade.