Why This Distinction Keeps Getting Blurred

People use "AI" to mean a lot of different things in the same breath — GPT-4 is "AI," ChatGPT is "AI," a company's customer support bot built on top of both is also "AI." But these are three genuinely different things, sitting at different layers …

Why I'm Writing This

Spend five minutes on any tech forum and you'll find someone dismissing a new AI product as "just a wrapper around GPT/Claude." It's become the go-to insult in GenAI circles — implying the product has no real technology, no moat, nothing defensible. Just a thin UI …

The AI agent ecosystem is growing fast. Here's a quick directory of notable AI startups and a couple of few-shot LLM models worth knowing about. Two lines each — just enough to know what they do and why they matter.

AI Agent Directory

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