Asia vs South Korea
Asia has 17× more AI funding than South Korea. Across 4 dimensions — funding, models, compute, orgs — one country pulls the AI race forward; the other chases.
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#1 = Asia RATIO 17× SHARE OF WORLD · 8/100 UPDATED 2026-05-08
Asia 7/100 South Korea 1/100 rest of world 92/100
Together =
8%
of all AI funding tracked worldwide.
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🌏 Asia
7/100
$29.7B · #2 of 6
🇰🇷 South Korea
1/100
$1.7B · #8 of 40
SRC: epoch · forbes · cbi · manual-gaps 1 SQUARE = 1% OF WORLD AI FUNDING
🌏 Asia
#2 of 6 · region
━━ vs ━━
South Korea 🇰🇷
#8 of 40 · country
BARS NORMALIZED PER-ROW TO MAX(L,R) PINK = Asia · BLUE = South Korea
note — Asia runs 17× more AI capital than South Korea. Whether that translates to frontier compute is what the next chart shows.
— ai-race-map · methodology @ /m
┌─ tile area ≈ funding · column width ≈ side total · all orgs shown ──────────────────────────── ┐
🌏 Asia 53/89 · $36.3B
🇰🇷 South Korea 5/13 · $1.7B
CLICK A TILE → ORG PROFILE ASIA RUNS 21× SOUTH KOREA · NARROW SIDE FLOORED FOR LEGIBILITY