Rethinking AI Hardware: A Three-Layer Cognitive Architecture for Autonomous Agents

ArXi:2604.13757v1 Announce Type: new The next generation of autonomous AI systems will be constrained not only by model capability, but by how intelligence is structured across heterogeneous hardware. Current paradigms -- cloud-centric AI, on-device inference, and edge-cloud pipelines -- treat planning, reasoning, and execution as a monolithic process, leading to unnecessary latency, energy consumption, and fragmented behavioral continuity. We