The median regulated institution shares AI dependencies with three hundred other institutions.
In a population of 543 regulated financial institutions, the median institution shares AI dependencies with 311 of the other 542 through common vendors. Ninety-six percent sit inside this shared mesh. Most cluster at the high end of partner counts, not the low. The mesh is dense, not sparse.
Each bar groups institutions by their mesh partner count, where two institutions are mesh partners if they share at least one common AI vendor. The peak at 300 to 350 partners holds 135 of 543 institutions. Three hundred and twenty institutions sit at three hundred partners or higher. Twenty-three institutions sit outside the mesh entirely, sharing no vendor with any other. The shape of the distribution is left-leaning, with most institutions deep inside the mesh rather than at its edge.