Bay Area has 46× more AI funding than New York. Across 3 dimensions — funding, models, compute, orgs — one country pulls the AI race forward; the other chases.
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#1 = Bay Area RATIO 46×SHARE OF WORLD · 81/100UPDATED 2026-05-08
01 — Share of world
New York 2/100Bay Area 79/100rest of world 19/100
Together =
81%
of all AI funding tracked worldwide.
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🇺🇸 New York
2/100
$7.1B · #4 of 12
🇺🇸 Bay Area
79/100
$323.8B · #1 of 12
SRC: epoch · forbes · cbi · manual-gaps1 SQUARE = 1% OF WORLD AI FUNDING
02 — Head-to-head
🇺🇸New York
#4 of 12 · hub
━━ vs ━━
Bay Area🇺🇸
#1 of 12 · hub
BARS NORMALIZED PER-ROW TO MAX(L,R)PINK = New York · BLUE = Bay Area
note — Bay Area runs 46× more AI capital than New York. 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 ──────────────────────────── ┐