From Electricity to Intelligence: Mapping the AI Five-Layer Ecosystem (context: Jensen Huang's Blog)

Artificial intelligence is often discussed through visible products such as chatbots, copilots, or autonomous systems. However, the AI economy is built on a deeper industrial stack. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang described this structure as “AI’s Five-Layer Cake,” where multiple industries combine to power modern AI systems.

The five layers are:

Energy → Chips → Infrastructure → Models → Applications