1906
A light bulb that learned to listen.
Lee de Forest built this after a wrong guess under a gas lamp. Inside the glass, a tiny signal could open or close a much bigger flow of electricity — like a finger on a light switch. That was the first amplifier. Radio and television needed it.
Later we used these only on or off. Stack enough of them, and a machine can think. Your phone still works that way — only much smaller.
People once filled a whole room with parts like that, and called it a computer.
A few thousand of them flew the first people to the moon.
Today, billions sit on a chip. The green mark is about one of them — and saying hello to an AI can wake a whole city of them at once.
Our mission is to bring you access to the best AI capabilities — and teach you, along the way, how to use the technology of our lifetime.
Our promise: if you hear about a feature and want to try it, we will bring it to you — at the cheapest cost we can.
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