Beijing vs United States

United States has 26x 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 26× 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

United States's top 3 are 20× Beijing's total

Beijing has 19 tracked orgs; United States'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

🇺🇸 United States 136 orgs · $347.2B

top 1 49%

top 3 77%

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

🇺🇸 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

Beijing: 19 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 Beijing → United States → ← world map