Japan vs United States
United States has 520× 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 = United States RATIO 520× SHARE OF WORLD · 86/100 UPDATED 2026-05-08
Japan 1/100 United States 85/100 rest of world 14/100
Together =
86%
of all AI funding tracked worldwide.
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🇯🇵 Japan
1/100
$668M · #14 of 40
🇺🇸 United States
85/100
$347.2B · #1 of 40
SRC: epoch · forbes · cbi · manual-gaps 1 SQUARE = 1% OF WORLD AI FUNDING
🇯🇵 Japan
#14 of 40 · country
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United States 🇺🇸
#1 of 40 · country
BARS NORMALIZED PER-ROW TO MAX(L,R) PINK = Japan · BLUE = United States
note — United States runs 520× 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 ──────────────────────────── ┐
CLICK A TILE → ORG PROFILE UNITED STATES RUNS 548× JAPAN · NARROW SIDE FLOORED FOR LEGIBILITY