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The AI Value Chain: Where the Trillion Dollars Is Flowing

Kaizen ResearchKaizen Research · Jun 23, 2026 · 25 min read
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The Five-Layer Cake

The cleanest way to understand AI investing is a framework NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang uses to describe how value moves through the economy: a five-layer cake.

  • Layer 5, Applications: The products normal people touch, like ChatGPT and Claude, plus the enterprise software and agents built on top of models. This is where economic value finally shows up.

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