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The AI Building

Every AI tool you hear about lives on one floor of the same building. Start in the lobby, pick a floor, and go from four plain words to the real terms in four levels.

The AI Building lobby: ten floors and a basement

What is inside

  1. Floor 10: Apps where you talk to AI
  2. Floor 9: Coding agents AI that writes and runs code
  3. Floor 8: Connectors and automation how AI reaches your other tools
  4. Floor 7: SDKs and frameworks code kits for building AI apps
  5. Floor 6: Gateways one key, many models
  6. Floor 5: Backend and memory logins, data, what AI remembers
  7. Floor 4: Evals and observability checking AI's work and cost
  8. Floor 3: Cloud hosts rent models by the token
  9. Floor 2: Local AI on your own machine
  10. Floor 1: Models the brains behind every app
  11. Basement: Compute the chips under everything

Coming as its own app at $5.99 a month. Anyone who owns a BBHQ book gets 6 months free, then 25% off.

Floor 10: Apps

Levels 1 and 2 shown. Wiring and Blueprint open in the full building.

Floor 10 Apps: Walkthrough and Floor plan

Floor 1: Models

Levels 1 and 2 shown. Wiring and Blueprint open in the full building.

Floor 1 Models: Walkthrough and Floor plan