Japan vs United States

United States has 520x 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 520× more AI capital than Japan. 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 400× Japan's total

Japan has 7 tracked orgs; United States's top three alone carry $267.2B.

top-heavy

🇯🇵 Japan 7 orgs · $668M

top 1 72%

top 3 100%

biggest carrier: Sakana AI · $479M

🇺🇸 United States 136 orgs · $347.2B

top 1 49%

top 3 77%

biggest carrier: OpenAI · $170.8B

🇯🇵 Japan top 3 $668M

1 Sakana AI 72% of Japan tracked AI-native funding $479M 2 Preferred Networks 19% of Japan tracked AI-native funding $130M 3 Stockmark 9% of Japan tracked AI-native funding $59M

🇺🇸 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

Japan: 7 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 Japan → United States → ← world map