LAYER 7 — TOP
Consumers & Devices
Where people and their machines sit
You / Consumers
End users & learners
Local Compute
Home laptop / PC
Mobile Devices
Phones & tablets
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LAYER 6
Experience Surface
What people actually see and touch
UIs / Frontends
Web & app interfaces
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LAYER 5
Intelligence & Agents
Where reasoning and autonomous work happen
LLMs
Language models in general
Frontier LLMs
Most capable models
Remote Coding
Agents & remote envs
Inference
Running the model right now
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LAYER 4
Protocols & Connectors
The contracts that let pieces talk
APIs
Application interfaces
MCPs
Agents, wrappers & tools
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LAYER 3
Edge & Global Delivery
Closest to the user, fastest path
Cloudflare
Edge network & Workers
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LAYER 2
Cloud Platforms & Core Backend
Where most production systems live
AWS
Cloud infrastructure
PostgreSQL
Relational databases
Backend Pipes
Storage, networking, queues
Languages & Runtimes
Python, JS/TS, etc.
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LAYER 1 — FOUNDATION
Physical & Frontier Foundation
The deepest layer — cables, power, massive GPU clusters, big company data centers
Internet Backbone
Cables, routers, ISPs
Frontier Compute
Training + heavy inference GPUs
Hyperscale Data Centers
Owned by big companies
How to read this: Bottom = deepest backend & compute foundation. Top = you.
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