Asia leads — United Arab Emirates has no recorded AI funding yet. Across 4 dimensions — funding, models, compute, orgs — one country pulls the AI race forward; the other chases.
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#1 = Asia RATIO ∞×SHARE OF WORLD · 7/100UPDATED 2026-05-08
01 — Share of world
United Arab Emirates 0/100Asia 7/100rest of world 93/100
Together =
7%
of all AI funding tracked worldwide.
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🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
0/100
$0 · #25 of 40
🌏 Asia
7/100
$29.7B · #2 of 6
SRC: epoch · forbes · cbi · manual-gaps1 SQUARE = 1% OF WORLD AI FUNDING
02 — Head-to-head
🇦🇪United Arab Emirates
#25 of 40 · country
━━ vs ━━
Asia🌏
#2 of 6 · region
BARS NORMALIZED PER-ROW TO MAX(L,R)PINK = United Arab Emirates · BLUE = Asia
note — Asia runs ∞× more AI capital than United Arab Emirates. Whether that translates to frontier compute is what the next chart shows.
— ai-race-map · methodology @ /m
03 — Top AI organizations by funding
┌─ tile area ≈ funding · column width ≈ side total · all orgs shown ──────────────────────────── ┐
🇦🇪United Arab Emirates3/7 · $4.6B
🌏Asia53/89 · $36.3B
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