03 - The Power of the Tech Stack Behind GenAI
The Power of the Tech Stack Behind GenAI If you’ve followed the history of Artificial Intelligence, you’re probably familiar with the journey — from the Turing Test in the 1950s, through early experiments like ELIZA , to the long AI winters , and finally into today’s GenAI boom. So no, this post isn’t another trip down memory lane. As an engineer who lives and breathes technology, I want to focus on something more foundational and often overlooked: The powerful technology stack that made the GenAI revolution possible. Generative AI didn’t emerge in isolation. It was enabled by decades of hard-fought progress in cloud computing, connectivity, hardware, and data infrastructure. Let’s dive in. 1. Cloud Computing: Scalability Meets Accessibility Generative AI models like ChatGPT , and Gemini are built on massive deep learning architectures — often containing billions of parameters and trained on trillions of data points . Running such large-scale models requi...