Tech experts urge focus on five-layer AI stack to boost IT sector in Pakistan

Tech experts have called for stronger promotion of the IT sector, urging a focus on a five-layer artificial intelligence (IT) stack spanning energy, chips, infrastructure, models and applications. Speaking to Business Recorder, Liaquat Ali, Founder of LA Consulting Corporation, said promoting the IT industry required moving up the five-layer AI stack. “Pakistan competes only at the applications layer today, the most exposed to automation. Target verticals are Islamic finance technology, South Asian agricultural technology, and Urdu-language AI. Export targets must be USD-denominated and tracked quarterly,” he said.