[friendly_chap]

Hah! Nice idea! I built something with a similar mindset but instead of calling cloud AI providers my aim is to provide a self-hostable complete AI platform: https://github.com/singulatron/singulatron

I know that might sound like putting the server back to serverless. But I would say it's being your own serverless provider - once you have the platform installed on your servers you can build frontend-only AI apps on top.

Hope you don't mind the self-plug. Your approach definitely a ton of advantages when starting out (no infra to manage etc).