Sometimes data falls off of the back of a truck.

I doubt that it would be useful for most newcomers to try to compete with GPT/Claude, etc for pure text LLM's now.

If someone is just starting AI research for something like a PhD or startup, now, I think it'll be more useful to get familiar with robot simulation framework, such as Nvidia Omniverse.

While there's a lot of competition around humanoid robots, I'm sure there are plenty of more specialized possibilities. Maybe some agricultural machine, maybe medical, mining, etc.