
Building powerful AI models should not only belong to Big Tech. The real challenge is making serious compute and model infrastructure accessible to local builders. At the DFNS Institutional Stage, Nicky Li (@NickyLi37) from CoreAccess (@CoreAccess_AI), Shuenrui Lee (@shuenrui) from Qwen (@Alibaba_Qwen), and Stanley Nguyen (@stanthepixelman) from Pixel8Labs (@pixel8labs) joined moderator Alvin Yap (@AlvinYap510) from Happening Labs (@HappeningLabs) for the panel: “Building Without Big Tech: How Local Devs Can Run Massive Models on a Budget” A discussion on AI infrastructure, open-source models, cost-efficient deployment, and how local developers can build with massive models without relying fully on Big Tech resources.










