{"id":18083,"date":"2026-04-29T22:40:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/?p=18083"},"modified":"2026-04-29T22:40:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:40:39","slug":"the-geography-of-ai-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/the-geography-of-ai-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"The geography of AI firms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bis.org\/author\/kumar_rishabh.htm\">Kumar Rishabh<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bis.org\/author\/vatsala_shreeti.htm\">Vatsala Shreeti<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BIS Working Papers | No 1343 | 20 April 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this paper, we trace the geography and economic characteristics of firms\u00a0that produce artificial intelligence (AI) products and services. Many economies\u00a0around the world are evaluating their strategic priorities in AI, yet relatively little\u00a0is documented about the global distribution of AI production. We construct a new\u00a0database that identifies 1,246 AI-producing firms across 32 economies. We map\u00a0these firms in each economy into the five layers of the AI supply chain: compute,\u00a0cloud and related infrastructure, data tools, AI models and AI applications. The\u00a0biggest markets for AI production are China and the US. Most economies specialise\u00a0only in a few supply chain layers and many focus largely on compute. AI firms in\u00a0all economies exhibit strong home bias in investment activity, with a focus on\u00a0downstream applications. Finally, we find that venture capital inflows are strongly\u00a0correlated with the presence and density of AI firms in a given economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dataset: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bis.org\/publ\/work1343_data.xlsx\">https:\/\/www.bis.org\/publ\/work1343_data.xlsx<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u03a0\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae: BIS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bis.org\/publ\/work1343.pdf\">\u03c0\u03bb\u03ae\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b5\u03af\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Kumar Rishabh\u00a0and\u00a0Vatsala Shreeti BIS Working Papers | No 1343 | 20 April 2026 In this paper, we trace the geography and economic characteristics of firms\u00a0that produce artificial intelligence (AI) products and services. Many economies\u00a0around the world are evaluating their strategic priorities in AI, yet relatively little\u00a0is documented about the global distribution of AI production. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19","category-34","category-proposals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18084,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18083\/revisions\/18084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}