China vs United States

United States has 15x 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 15× more AI capital than China. 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 11× China's total

China has 38 tracked orgs; United States's top three alone carry $267.2B.

top-heavy

🇨🇳 China 38 orgs · $23.5B

top 1 17%

top 3 38%

biggest carrier: Moonshot AI · $3.9B

🇺🇸 United States 136 orgs · $347.2B

top 1 49%

top 3 77%

biggest carrier: OpenAI · $170.8B

🇨🇳 China top 3 $8.9B

1 Moonshot AI 17% of China tracked AI-native funding $3.9B 2 Horizon Robotics 13% of China tracked AI-native funding $3.0B 3 SenseTime 9% of China 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

China: 38 orgs · United States: 136 orgs. HQ-BASED AI-NATIVE FUNDING ONLY · TOP-3 ROWS SHARE THE HEADLINE BASIS

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