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The AI economy is a five-layer chain

BIS research maps hardware, cloud infrastructure, training data, foundation models and applications as interdependent layers. Risk or market power at one layer can propagate through the rest.

Bank for International Settlements18 March 2025Reviewed 26 July 2026
The AI economy is a five-layer chainFUURAA original conceptual visual

What the evidence indicates

A concise reading of the source

BIS research maps hardware, cloud infrastructure, training data, foundation models and applications as interdependent layers. Risk or market power at one layer can propagate through the rest.

FUURAA interpretation

Why this could matter

Product strategy should identify critical dependencies across the full chain.

How to read this signal

Documented development

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