I agree, there is a very serious risk of newer AI advances being closed by default, and I think it's not being taken seriously enough.
Even "open" players are still for-profit, say Huggingface. There really needs to be Linux or FSF like players that are motivated by freedom.
[0] https://github.com/LAION-AI/Open-Assistant [1] https://github.com/FMInference/FlexGen
You can get relatively SOTA models running locally, it just requires a lot of compute.