Paris vs Beijing
Beijing has 1.8× more AI funding than Paris. Across 3 dimensions — funding, models, compute, orgs — one country pulls the AI race forward; the other chases.
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#1 = Beijing RATIO 1.8× SHARE OF WORLD · 5/100 UPDATED 2026-05-08
Paris 2/100 Beijing 3/100 rest of world 95/100
Together =
5%
of all AI funding tracked worldwide.
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🇫🇷 Paris
2/100
$7.2B · #3 of 12
🇨🇳 Beijing
3/100
$13.2B · #2 of 12
SRC: epoch · forbes · cbi · manual-gaps 1 SQUARE = 1% OF WORLD AI FUNDING
🇫🇷 Paris
#3 of 12 · hub
━━ vs ━━
Beijing 🇨🇳
#2 of 12 · hub
BARS NORMALIZED PER-ROW TO MAX(L,R) PINK = Paris · BLUE = Beijing
note — Beijing runs 1.8× more AI capital than Paris. 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 ──────────────────────────── ┐
🇫🇷 Paris 11/12 · $7.5B
🇨🇳 Beijing 11/19 · $13.2B
CLICK A TILE → ORG PROFILE BEIJING RUNS 1.8× PARIS