This is easy to say, but I think the issue is that getting an LLM right isn't easy, so it's not clear who should steward such a project. Something like BLOOM shows that even if you have the necessary compute, you can still get a model that isn't good.

I think it will take some time for it to be clear who is a leader in training open source models (maybe it will be the red pajama folks?) and I think they'll get more support after that.