Tel Aviv vs United States

United States has 458x 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.

DAVID/GOLIATH

note — United States runs 458× more AI capital than Tel Aviv. 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 352× Tel Aviv's total

Tel Aviv has 6 tracked orgs; United States's top three alone carry $267.2B.

top-heavy

🇮🇱 Tel Aviv 6 orgs · $758M

top 1 44%

top 3 82%

biggest carrier: AI21 Labs · $336M

🇺🇸 United States 136 orgs · $347.2B

top 1 49%

top 3 77%

biggest carrier: OpenAI · $170.8B

🇮🇱 Tel Aviv top 3 $623M

1 AI21 Labs 44% of Tel Aviv tracked AI-native funding $336M 2 Decart 20% of Tel Aviv tracked AI-native funding $153M 3 Wonderful 18% of Tel Aviv tracked AI-native funding $134M

🇺🇸 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

Tel Aviv: 6 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 Tel Aviv → United States → ← world map