Asia vs United States

United States 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.

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note — United States 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

United States's top 3 are 9.0× Asia's total

Asia has 89 tracked orgs; United States'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

🇺🇸 United States 136 orgs · $347.2B

top 1 49%

top 3 77%

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

🇺🇸 United States top 3 $267.2B

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

Asia: 89 orgs · United States: 136 orgs. HQ-BASED AI-NATIVE FUNDING ONLY · TOP-3 ROWS SHARE THE HEADLINE BASIS

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Updated 2026-05-08 Asia → United States → ← world map