Artificial Intelligence

Notes about AI: industry, products, news, and knowledges.

Industry Chain

AI industry chain include upstream, midstream, downstream.

Upstream: Include Silicon Vendor, Cloud Service Provider, Model Provider.
- Silicon Vendor: INTEL, AMD, NVIDIA, ARM, etc
- CSP(Cloud Service Provider): Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta, ByteDance, Alibaba, Baidu, Huawei, etc
- MP(Model Provider): OpenAI, Claude, DeepSeek, Zhipu, MiniMax, Qwen, etc
Midstream: Include software framework and infrastructure provider
- Model Hub: HuggingFace, ModelScope
  - HuggingFace provide transformers, datasets, optimum, tokenizers for running or training model.
- Train Framework: PyTorch, TensorFlow, Paddle, Keras
  - Pytorch provide operators
- Infer Framework: vLLM, llama.cpp
- Agent Framework: Langchain, LlamaIndex
- Database Framework: Chromadb, Neo4J, etc
- RAG Framework
- UI Framework: OpenWebUI, Streamlit, Chainlit
- MCP Framework
- Memory Framework
Downstream: Include huge applications