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The AI Stack

How the pieces fit: silicon and clouds at the bottom, then data infrastructure, then foundation models, then orchestration and tooling, then the applications people actually touch. Knowing the layers turns a soup of company names into a map, and explains who depends on whom when one layer wobbles.

Key terms

Infrastructure layerModel layerOrchestrationApplication layerValue chain

Where you meet it in the real world

Vendor decisions, reading AI news critically, spotting chokepoints and single points of failure

Guides and articles