Jensen Huang says AI is a five-layer cake—so is Bitcoin

TL;DR: NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang describes artificial intelligence (AI) as a five-layer infrastructure stack running from energy at the bottom to applications at the top. Bitcoin can be understood similarly: proof-of-work supports the network of nodes, which maintains a shared blockchain that supports programmable transactions and applications. The two stacks do different jobs, but they may become increasingly complementary as autonomous AI systems need independently verifiable records of what they did. NVIDIA ( NASDAQ: NVDA ) CEO Jensen Huang has a useful way of thinking about artificial intelligence (AI)—he calls it the five-layer cake.