Brazil vs South America
South America has 3.0× more AI funding than Brazil. Across 2 dimensions — funding, models, compute, orgs — one country pulls the AI race forward; the other chases.
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#1 = South America RATIO 3.0× SHARE OF WORLD · 2/100 UPDATED 2026-05-08
Brazil 1/100 South America 1/100 rest of world 98/100
Together =
2%
of all AI funding tracked worldwide.
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🇧🇷 Brazil
1/100
$315M · #19 of 40
🌎 South America
1/100
$941M · #4 of 6
SRC: epoch · forbes · cbi · manual-gaps 1 SQUARE = 1% OF WORLD AI FUNDING
🇧🇷 Brazil
#19 of 40 · country
━━ vs ━━
South America 🌎
#4 of 6 · region
BARS NORMALIZED PER-ROW TO MAX(L,R) PINK = Brazil · BLUE = South America
note — South America runs 3.0× more AI capital than Brazil. 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 ──────────────────────────── ┐
🇧🇷 Brazil 2/2 · $315M
🌎 South America 4/5 · $941M
CLICK A TILE → ORG PROFILE SOUTH AMERICA RUNS 3.0× BRAZIL