Boston vs Toronto
Toronto has 2.0× more AI funding than Boston. Across 3 dimensions — funding, models, compute, orgs — one country pulls the AI race forward; the other chases.
LIVE
#1 = Toronto RATIO 2.0× SHARE OF WORLD · 2/100 UPDATED 2026-05-08
Boston 1/100 Toronto 1/100 rest of world 98/100
Together =
2%
of all AI funding tracked worldwide.
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🇺🇸 Boston
1/100
$2.0B · #8 of 12
🇨🇦 Toronto
1/100
$4.1B · #7 of 12
SRC: epoch · forbes · cbi · manual-gaps 1 SQUARE = 1% OF WORLD AI FUNDING
🇺🇸 Boston
#8 of 12 · hub
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Toronto 🇨🇦
#7 of 12 · hub
BARS NORMALIZED PER-ROW TO MAX(L,R) PINK = Boston · BLUE = Toronto
note — Toronto runs 2.0× more AI capital than Boston. Whether that translates to frontier compute is what the next chart shows.
— ai-race-map · methodology @ /m
┌─ tile area ≈ funding · column width ≈ side total · all orgs shown ──────────────────────────── ┐
🇺🇸 Boston 8/8 · $2.0B
🇨🇦 Toronto 5/7 · $4.1B
CLICK A TILE → ORG PROFILE TORONTO RUNS 2.0× BOSTON