By Ana Sofia Cianfarani, Paola Di Casola, Jos Ramos and Dennis Zander AI has the potential to reshape the euro area economy. This ECB Blog post explores how AI investments are being financed, focusing on the current financing mix of the most AI-intensive sectors and the consequences for monetary policy. Euro area firms are taking part in the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution. And, as discussed in a previous ECB Blog post , those operating in the most AI-intensive sectors often rely more on internal funds. Firm balance sheet data reveal that AI-intensive firms have recently started to turn more towards market-based financing as a source of debt financing, rather than relying on traditional bank lending .
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