Asia vs North America

North America has 12x more tracked AI funding, so the useful question is where the smaller side still punches above weight. This page picks the chart shape from the data instead of forcing every comparison into the same visual.

DAVID/GOLIATH

note — North America runs 12× more AI capital than Asia. Whether that translates to frontier compute is what the next chart shows.

— ai-race-map · methodology @ /m

03 — Org capital concentration

North America's top 3 are 9.0× Asia's total

Asia has 89 tracked orgs; North America's top three alone carry $267.2B.

top-heavy

🌏 Asia 89 orgs · $29.7B

top 1 13%

top 3 30%

biggest carrier: Moonshot AI · $3.9B

🌎 North America 145 orgs · $351.7B

top 1 49%

top 3 76%

biggest carrier: OpenAI · $170.8B

🌏 Asia top 3 $8.9B

1 Moonshot AI 13% of Asia tracked AI-native funding $3.9B 2 Horizon Robotics 10% of Asia tracked AI-native funding $3.0B 3 SenseTime 7% of Asia tracked AI-native funding $2.0B

🌎 North America top 3 $267.2B

1 OpenAI 49% of North America tracked AI-native funding $170.8B 2 Anthropic 17% of North America tracked AI-native funding $59.4B 3 xAI 11% of North America tracked AI-native funding $37.0B

Asia: 89 orgs · North America: 145 orgs. HQ-BASED AI-NATIVE FUNDING ONLY · TOP-3 ROWS SHARE THE HEADLINE BASIS

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Updated 2026-05-08 Asia → North America → ← world map