Comment by DeathArrow

>Starting from zero today, how would someone quickly get upto speed with the latest and greatest AI tooling on an extremely limited budget?

Z.AI, Moonshot.AI, Xiaomi, Minimax, Alibaba all have coding plans that allows a massive usage of GLM 5.1, Kimi k2.6, Minimax M2.7, Qwen 3.6 Plus, Xiaomi MiMo v2.5 Pro for cheap.

Pair those coding plans with the harness of choice including Claude Code and you are good to go.

Also, Nvidia is offering free access to top models for free through NIM - but you have 40 RPM limits. https://blog.kilo.ai/p/nvidia-nim-kilo-code-free-kimi-k25