Walk the stack
Walk the stack
Bottom-up through the 10 core layers and 5 meta-layers, infrastructure to protocols. Each module ends with a Probe dialog, a Compare phase, a Why-Open question, and you writing your own synthesis. Sovereignty and Decentralization is the capstone where everything from prior modules comes together.
- 01 Infrastructure Data centers, power, cooling, and the grid that runs the rest of the stack.
- 02 Silicon Chips and ISAs that execute the math.
- 03 Compute Where silicon physically runs and gets accessed (scheduling, networking, batching).
- 04 Data Training corpora, open and closed.
- 05 Training Tools to pretrain and fine-tune.
- 06 Weights Model artifacts and their license tiers.
- 07 Evaluation Benchmarks, harnesses, leaderboards.
- 08 Governance Licensing, definitions, foundations, OSAID.
- 09 Runtime Inference engines that serve tokens from weights.
- 10 Identity and Trust TEEs, confidential computing, verifiable inference.
- 11 Retrieval and Memory Vector databases, embeddings, agent memory, RAG.
- 12 Agents Frameworks and agent products.
- 13 Safety and Guardrails Llama Guard, NeMo Guardrails, sandbox-escape evals.
- 14 Protocols MCP, A2A, agentic payments, the integration wire.
- 15 Sovereignty and Decentralization (Capstone) Assemble your own theory of why open AI matters; synthesize the threads from prior modules.