I drew the entire AI stack on one page... and it's mostly not models.

Most "AI progress" talk lives on one layer: models. Bigger model, smaller model, new benchmark, repeat. But models sit on a stack, and the stack is what actually moves. I drew it as a pyramid: Foundations - > power, chips, fiber, cooling, redundancy, the people physically keeping it alive. Data - > books, code, images, audio, sensor logs, human feedback, plus the cleaning and annotation pipelines no one posts about. Models - > research