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Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed here belong solely to the author and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news’ editorial. Chatbots blew our minds when they first emerged more than a year ago. Having a conversation with an AI as if it were a human in the next room, seeing it summarize complex ideas—it felt like the dawn of a new era. But since then, the state of development has become fragmented in interesting ways. Despite all the excitement and the billions poured into AI development, where are the truly transformative applications? Apple, Microsoft, and Meta have had over a year to integrate AI into their ecosystems, yet their biggest AI breakthroughs amount to incremental improvements to existing products. Microsoft put a chatbot in Word. Meta put one in Instagram. Apple’s flagship AI project? A delayed Siri upgrade that still hasn’t arrived. The momentum is instead with independent developers, who are racing ahead, building AI agents that can write and deploy entire software applications, autonomously manage investment portfolios, and generate real-time content in completely new formats. The most meaningful innovation isn’t happening inside Big Tech. It’s happening at the edges, among scrappy builders who see AI not as an added feature but as the foundation for something entirely new. Corporate resources are no substitute for innovation, and defending moats is a risky strategy in the middle of a technological shift. Today’s leading tech companies are falling behind, slowed by internal complexity as they cede ground to more agile, imaginative, and unencumbered challengers. Big Tech has everything it needs to win AI—and yet, it won’t Apple, Microsoft, and Meta have near-infinite resources, armies of engineers, and some of the biggest AI research budgets in the world. On paper, they should be dominating the AI revolution. Instead, their AI…

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