Beijing vs Bay Area

Bay Area has 25x 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 — Bay Area runs 25× more AI capital than Beijing. Whether that translates to frontier compute is what the next chart shows.

— ai-race-map · methodology @ /m

03 — Org capital concentration

Bay Area's top 3 are 20× Beijing's total

Beijing has 19 tracked orgs; Bay Area's top three alone carry $267.2B.

top-heavy

🇨🇳 Beijing 19 orgs · $13.2B

top 1 30%

top 3 63%

biggest carrier: Moonshot AI · $3.9B

🇺🇸 Bay Area 80 orgs · $323.8B

top 1 53%

top 3 83%

biggest carrier: OpenAI · $170.8B

🇨🇳 Beijing top 3 $8.3B

1 Moonshot AI 30% of Beijing tracked AI-native funding $3.9B 2 Horizon Robotics 23% of Beijing tracked AI-native funding $3.0B 3 Megvii 11% of Beijing tracked AI-native funding $1.4B

🇺🇸 Bay Area top 3 $267.2B

1 OpenAI 53% of Bay Area tracked AI-native funding $170.8B 2 Anthropic 18% of Bay Area tracked AI-native funding $59.4B 3 xAI 11% of Bay Area tracked AI-native funding $37.0B

Beijing: 19 orgs · Bay Area: 80 orgs. HQ-BASED AI-NATIVE FUNDING ONLY · TOP-3 ROWS SHARE THE HEADLINE BASIS

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Updated 2026-05-08 Beijing → Bay Area → ← world map