Most AI services will be delivered through the cloud majors. Their offerings will become the standards around which most of the industry will be established. And as X new thing becomes popular, they'll all compete to add/support that new thing.

Spend a very small amount of money and start experimenting with what AWS/Azure/Google/etc have made available, following any number of the solid tutorials available. You could run your experiments locally, however assuming eg $5 or $10 per month isn't a big deal to you, playing in their clouds will provide a more realistic use context whether you're building something for yourself in the future or if you're employed in that field.