Two halves of one story. First, how we got here — from mechanical calculators through the GPU accident that made modern AI possible. Second, a straight comparison of the companies now building it: who backs them, what they ship, and where each one is weak. Full disclosure: this portal itself runs on Anthropic models via AWS Bedrock.
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