London vs New York

London and New York 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 123.2 BOTH SIDES HAVE ENOUGH FUNDED ORGS FOR AN AREA CHART.

01 — Share of world

London 2/100 New York 2/100 rest of world 96/100

Together = 4% of all AI funding tracked worldwide.

London: 1.7% of world · New York: 1.7% of world

🇬🇧 London

2/100

$6.8B · #5 of 12

🇺🇸 New York

2/100

$7.1B · #4 of 12

SRC: epoch · forbes · cbi · manual-gaps 1 SQUARE = 1% OF WORLD AI FUNDING

01.5 — Why this comparison matters

The useful read hub vs hub

┌─ generated from funding, org, model, compute, and overlap signals ─────────────────────────────── ┐

London and New York are close on tracked AI funding, so the interesting split is models, compute, and org depth.

London's biggest carrier is Wayve: $3.5B (50.8% of tracked side funding). New York's biggest carrier is Reflection: $2.1B (30.2% 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.

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note — New York runs 1.0× more AI capital than London. Whether that translates to frontier compute is what the next chart shows.

— ai-race-map · methodology @ /m

03 — Org capital concentration

New York's top 3 absorb 73% of tracked funding

London's top 3 hold 71% of tracked funding.

top-heavy

🇬🇧 London 17 orgs · $6.8B

top 1 51%

top 3 71%

biggest carrier: Wayve · $3.5B

🇺🇸 New York 18 orgs · $7.1B

top 1 30%

top 3 73%

biggest carrier: Reflection · $2.1B

🇬🇧 London top 3 $4.8B

1 Wayve 51% of London tracked AI-native funding $3.5B 2 ElevenLabs 12% of London tracked AI-native funding $781M 3 Isomorphic Labs 9% of London tracked AI-native funding $600M

🇺🇸 New York top 3 $5.1B

1 Reflection 30% of New York tracked AI-native funding $2.1B 2 Reflection AI 30% of New York tracked AI-native funding $2.1B 3 Runway 12% of New York tracked AI-native funding $860M

London: 17 orgs · New York: 18 orgs. HQ-BASED AI-NATIVE FUNDING ONLY · TOP-3 ROWS SHARE THE HEADLINE BASIS

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Updated 2026-05-08 London → New York → ← world map