BIS 报告：2021 至 2025 年 AI 公司超半数投资来自同行

RT by @rohanpaul_ai: BIS (Bank for International Settlements) just published a report on circular financing among AI companies. > Over half the money flowing into AI companies comes from other AI companies: between 2021 and 2025, peers supplied 55.2% of AI firms' incoming investment value, while AI investors sent 28.7% of their own deal value to AI targets. > Circular deals are rare but big: only 16.1% of AI-to-AI deals involved firms that also buy from or sell to each other, yet they held 46.4% of the money. That figure is partly inflated, because an entire funding round counts as circular if just 1 of its AI investors also trades with the company. > Chip, cloud and infrastructure suppliers are the investor in 73% of circular ties, and in 64% of all such ties the investor also sells to the firm it funds. Data tool and model makers rarely invest this way, since their products are more interchangeable. > AI is unusually suited to these deals: suppliers can track customers' compute use,

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