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China vs Europe

China and Europe are close on tracked AI funding, so the interesting split is models, compute, and org depth. This page picks the chart shape from the data instead of forcing every comparison into the same visual.

RIVALRY
00 — Screenshot hook
PAIR SCORE 148.8 BOTH SIDES HAVE ENOUGH FUNDED ORGS FOR AN AREA CHART.
01.5 — Why this comparison matters

The useful read country vs region

┌─ generated from funding, org, model, compute, and overlap signals ─────────────────────────────── ┐
China and Europe are close on tracked AI funding, so the interesting split is models, compute, and org depth.
China's biggest carrier is Moonshot AI: $3.9B (16.6% of tracked side funding). Europe's biggest carrier is Wayve: $3.5B (15.4% of tracked side funding).
The org treemap is shown because both sides have enough funded orgs for area to mean something.
Funding is HQ-based and limited to AI-native orgs. Compute is counted by datacenter location, so it can disagree with headquarters funding.
INDEXABLE TOP-100 PAIR CANONICAL /vs/cn-vs-europe/
02 — Metric board
🇨🇳 China
#2 of 49 · country
━━ vs ━━
Europe 🌍
#3 of 6 · region
NOTABLE MODELS
China
85 · 2F
9.4× left
Europe
9
OPERATIONAL COMPUTE
China
517 MW · 5/7 MW-known
2.5× left
Europe
203 MW · 10/17 MW-known
AI ORGS
China
38
1.3× right
Europe
51
FUNDING
China
$23.5B
1.0× left
Europe
$22.4B
SORTED BY LARGEST VISIBLE GAP NO NORMALIZED BAR LENGTHS; VALUES PRINTED DIRECTLY
note — China runs 1.0× more AI capital than Europe. Whether that translates to frontier compute is what the next chart shows.
— ai-race-map · methodology @ /m
03 — Org capital concentration
China's top 3 absorb 38% of tracked funding
Europe's top 3 hold 36% of tracked funding.
org upset
🇨🇳 China 38 orgs · $23.5B
top 1 17%
top 3 38%
biggest carrier: Moonshot AI · $3.9B
🌍 Europe 51 orgs · $22.4B
top 1 15%
top 3 36%
biggest carrier: Wayve · $3.5B
Europe has more tracked orgs; China has the capital. HQ-BASED AI-NATIVE FUNDING ONLY · TOP-3 ROWS SHARE THE HEADLINE BASIS
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