Shanghai vs United States

United States has 69x 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 69× more AI capital than Shanghai. Whether that translates to frontier compute is what the next chart shows.

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03 — Org capital concentration

United States's top 3 are 53× Shanghai's total

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

top-heavy

🇨🇳 Shanghai 7 orgs · $5.0B

top 1 40%

top 3 68%

biggest carrier: SenseTime · $2.0B

🇺🇸 United States 136 orgs · $347.2B

top 1 49%

top 3 77%

biggest carrier: OpenAI · $170.8B

🇨🇳 Shanghai top 3 $3.4B

1 SenseTime 40% of Shanghai tracked AI-native funding $2.0B 2 StepFun 14% of Shanghai tracked AI-native funding $718M 3 Biren Technology 14% of Shanghai tracked AI-native funding $700M

🇺🇸 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

Shanghai: 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 Shanghai → United States → ← world map