Europe vs China
Tied on funding — Europe has 1.3× more orgs. Across 4 dimensions — funding, models, compute, orgs — one country pulls the AI race forward; the other chases.
LIVE
#1 = China RATIO 1.0× SHARE OF WORLD · 11/100 UPDATED 2026-05-08
Europe 5/100 China 6/100 rest of world 89/100
Together =
11%
of all AI funding tracked worldwide.
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🌍 Europe
5/100
$22.4B · #3 of 6
🇨🇳 China
6/100
$23.5B · #2 of 40
SRC: epoch · forbes · cbi · manual-gaps 1 SQUARE = 1% OF WORLD AI FUNDING
🌍 Europe
#3 of 6 · region
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China 🇨🇳
#2 of 40 · country
BARS NORMALIZED PER-ROW TO MAX(L,R) PINK = Europe · BLUE = China
note — China runs 1.0× more AI capital than Europe. 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 ──────────────────────────── ┐
CLICK A TILE → ORG PROFILE EUROPE RUNS 1.1× CHINA