Europe leads — Italy has no recorded AI funding yet. Across 4 dimensions — funding, models, compute, orgs — one country pulls the AI race forward; the other chases.
LIVE
#1 = Europe RATIO ∞×SHARE OF WORLD · 5/100UPDATED 2026-05-08
01 — Share of world
Italy 0/100Europe 5/100rest of world 95/100
Together =
5%
of all AI funding tracked worldwide.
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🇮🇹 Italy
0/100
$0 · #38 of 40
🌍 Europe
5/100
$22.4B · #3 of 6
SRC: epoch · forbes · cbi · manual-gaps1 SQUARE = 1% OF WORLD AI FUNDING
02 — Head-to-head
🇮🇹Italy
#38 of 40 · country
━━ vs ━━
Europe🌍
#3 of 6 · region
BARS NORMALIZED PER-ROW TO MAX(L,R)PINK = Italy · BLUE = Europe
note — Europe runs ∞× more AI capital than Italy. 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 ──────────────────────────── ┐