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See the system.
Follow the connections.

A closer look at the infrastructure behind AI.

Explore the hardware, follow the data, and inspect the workflows. Our public visual guides connect the parts to the system around them.

01 · Hardware & physical infrastructure

From the chip
to the building.

Start with a BEP visual journey through the physical stack, then explore an interactive Vera Rubin model. Rotate the compute tray, separate its components, and follow the CPU, memory, and GPU connections.

Interactive model adapted by BEP with permission from Ben Dicken · source project ↗. Dimensions and layout approximate public imagery; this is an educational model, not an engineering specification or performance simulation.

From chip to building
Silent video ready to play.
Explore inside an AI data center

BEP illustration

Hardware informed by NVIDIA references; facility illustrative.

02 · Optical networks & OCS

Follow the data
beyond the rack.

Lasers carry the bits. Tiny mirrors switch optical paths. Our narrated film follows the journey from a compute tray through the data center and out to other sites.

Then use Zero-Flap to explore why unstable links matter when a training cluster needs to move together.

OCS means optical circuit switching. The film’s routing and facility scenes are illustrative. Zero-Flap uses simplified assumptions that you can inspect in the tool.

How AI Data Moves1:43 · Narrated BEP film · Published October 11, 2026Watch the original release on YouTube ↗Read the automatic transcript ↗Automatic captions and transcript; technical spellings corrected.

03 · Agent infrastructure

Who owns
the workflow?

A model is one part of an AI system. Data, tools, routing, and the workflow around it determine how that system is used—and how easily it can change.

The Control Plane compares two approaches to model access. Explore where switching decisions sit and who controls the workflow.

An illustrative workflow

01The user’s work

A task, a process, a decision

02The control plane

Workflow, data, tools, routing

Model AModel BModel C

Explore who controls the switch

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