Japan vs Asia
Asia has 44× more AI funding than Japan. Across 4 dimensions — funding, models, compute, orgs — one country pulls the AI race forward; the other chases.
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#1 = Asia RATIO 44× SHARE OF WORLD · 8/100 UPDATED 2026-05-08
Japan 1/100 Asia 7/100 rest of world 92/100
Together =
8%
of all AI funding tracked worldwide.
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🇯🇵 Japan
1/100
$668M · #14 of 40
🌏 Asia
7/100
$29.7B · #2 of 6
SRC: epoch · forbes · cbi · manual-gaps 1 SQUARE = 1% OF WORLD AI FUNDING
🇯🇵 Japan
#14 of 40 · country
━━ vs ━━
Asia 🌏
#2 of 6 · region
BARS NORMALIZED PER-ROW TO MAX(L,R) PINK = Japan · BLUE = Asia
note — Asia runs 44× more AI capital than Japan. 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 ──────────────────────────── ┐
🇯🇵 Japan 3/7 · $668M
🌏 Asia 53/89 · $36.3B
CLICK A TILE → ORG PROFILE ASIA RUNS 54× JAPAN · NARROW SIDE FLOORED FOR LEGIBILITY