If you

> want to build an app around the newest AI models available at that time

Then you won't be one of

>people end up controlling AGIs, ASIs

You will just be using it.

(It's like saying you want to build a business in/on/with Facebook so you end up controlling Facebook. It doesn't work like that)

You want to control it? Then build the AI you want to control from the ground up.

>I finish my software dev degree in may, and after a year or so of working...

Start right now, or it won't happen. Its never the right time. Nothing is stopping you now (spoken as an old bastard who spent his best years making someone else money).