China 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 — China runs 25× more AI capital than South America. 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 are 9.5× South America's total
South America has 5 tracked orgs; China's top three alone carry $8.9B.