Accelerating Africa's Digital Growth

The Layers of the AI Stack, and Why Africa Can Currently Only Participate in Four out of Five Two weeks ago, at the Global Africa Business Initiative Kenya watch party at the Serena Hotel in Nairobi, I gave a keynote on how Africa can build, own and shape Artificial Intelligence (AI) rather than simply consume it. I borrowed Jensen Huang's picture of AI as a five-layer cake: energy at the bottom, then chips, then infrastructure, then models, and applications at the top. My a