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New York vs Paris

New York and Paris 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 124.1 BOTH SIDES HAVE ENOUGH FUNDED ORGS FOR AN AREA CHART.
01 — Share of world
New York 2/100 Paris 2/100 rest of world 96/100
Together = 4% of all AI funding tracked worldwide.
New York: 1.7% of world · Paris: 1.8% of world
🇺🇸 New York
2/100
$7.1B · #4 of 12
🇫🇷 Paris
2/100
$7.2B · #3 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 ─────────────────────────────── ┐
New York and Paris are close on tracked AI funding, so the interesting split is models, compute, and org depth.
New York's biggest carrier is Reflection: $2.1B (30.2% of tracked side funding). Paris's biggest carrier is Mistral AI: $3.0B (42.4% 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.
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02 — Metric board
🇺🇸 New York
#4 of 12 · hub
━━ vs ━━
Paris 🇫🇷
#3 of 12 · hub
NOTABLE MODELS
New York
4
1.5× right
Paris
6
AI ORGS
New York
18
1.5× left
Paris
12
FUNDING
New York
$7.1B
1.0× right
Paris
$7.2B
SORTED BY LARGEST VISIBLE GAP NO NORMALIZED BAR LENGTHS; VALUES PRINTED DIRECTLY
note — Paris runs 1.0× more AI capital than New York. Whether that translates to frontier compute is what the next chart shows.
— ai-race-map · methodology @ /m
03 — Org capital concentration
Paris's top 3 absorb 74% of tracked funding
New York's top 3 hold 73% of tracked funding.
org upset
🇺🇸 New York 18 orgs · $7.1B
top 1 30%
top 3 73%
biggest carrier: Reflection · $2.1B
🇫🇷 Paris 12 orgs · $7.2B
top 1 42%
top 3 74%
biggest carrier: Mistral AI · $3.0B
🇺🇸 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
🇫🇷 Paris top 3 $5.3B
1 Mistral AI 42% of Paris tracked AI-native funding $3.0B 2 Contentsquare 17% of Paris tracked AI-native funding $1.2B 3 Ami Labs 14% of Paris tracked AI-native funding $1.0B
New York has more tracked orgs; Paris has the capital. HQ-BASED AI-NATIVE FUNDING ONLY · TOP-3 ROWS SHARE THE HEADLINE BASIS
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