The fact that only companies and labs have access ... DANGER DANGER
Fact??? Fact??? Bollocks!
This is just "there's a corporate crook under every bed" FUD.
NNs have been around since granny was a girl (well at least since I did post grad stuff using NNs in the 1980s).
They're simple as anything to program. Any vaguely competent programmer can write a NN engine.
This is certainly not a technology where the common man is locked out.