United Kingdom vs France
Tied on funding — United Kingdom has 1.6× more orgs. Across 3 dimensions — funding, models, compute, orgs — one country pulls the AI race forward; the other chases.
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#1 = France RATIO 1.0× SHARE OF WORLD · 4/100 UPDATED 2026-05-08
United Kingdom 2/100 France 2/100 rest of world 96/100
Together =
4%
of all AI funding tracked worldwide.
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom
2/100
$7.0B · #4 of 40
🇫🇷 France
2/100
$7.2B · #3 of 40
SRC: epoch · forbes · cbi · manual-gaps 1 SQUARE = 1% OF WORLD AI FUNDING
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
#4 of 40 · country
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France 🇫🇷
#3 of 40 · country
BARS NORMALIZED PER-ROW TO MAX(L,R) PINK = United Kingdom · BLUE = France
note — France runs 1.0× more AI capital than United Kingdom. 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 UNITED KINGDOM RUNS 1.1× FRANCE