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title: "AI Ecosystem"
date: 2025-11-06
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summary: "My 3 takeaways from GTC Washington, D.C. 2025."
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![Stacked diagram of the AI industry from an Nvidia GTC session: applications, models, infrastructure, GPUs and, at the base, energy.](/images/ai-ecosystem.png)

NVIDIA sits at the center of today’s AI ecosystem. Here are my 3 takeaways from GTC Washington, D.C. 2025 (video replay link below):

✅ **AI stack** – a clear view of what it looks like, with energy as the foundation powering AI factories. (AI runs on watts before it runs on tokens.)
✅ **"AI is not a tool"** – I’m still wrapping my head around this shift—AI is more than a tool, it’s a transformation. When have we ever been asked to transform at this level? Never. And that’s exactly the point.
✅ **Data centers vs. AI factories** – general-purpose centers serve everything; AI factories run AI exclusively, producing tokens at extraordinary rates. **The insurance & risk professional in me couldn't help but wonder**… will AI factories soon be treated as *new infrastructure class* — with unique risk, capital, and energy implications?

👉 Learn AI.

**Link** (Nvidia, GTC Washington, D.C. 2025) https://www.youtube.com/live/lQHK61IDFH4?si=P6BJGsSaI6KHf1A0

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