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There's a lot of time being spent on a lot of the middle layer between the foundation models and the applications. And I think in the middle layers, middleware, things that allow you to use those models better, faster, cheaper, and build applications on top. So if you think the application at the top of the pyramid, the foundation model at the bottom of the pyramid, you know, pyramid.