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Re:Bell Works New Jersey by emptyparadise on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @01:38PM (#33709296)
Bell Labs is our industry's Roman Empire.
Re:Bell Works New Jersey by FooBarBizBazz on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @03:44PM (#33711237)
DeepMind, OpenAI, and FAIR have done some cool stuff, but nobody's come close to matching the invention of the transistor.

Also -- in terms of "empires" -- before Bell Telephone, you might be able to point to Edison's Menlo Park lab.