Seoul vs Boston
Boston has 1.2× more AI funding than Seoul. Across 3 dimensions — funding, models, compute, orgs — one country pulls the AI race forward; the other chases.
LIVE
#1 = Boston RATIO 1.2× SHARE OF WORLD · 2/100 UPDATED 2026-05-08
Seoul 1/100 Boston 1/100 rest of world 98/100
Together =
2%
of all AI funding tracked worldwide.
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🇰🇷 Seoul
1/100
$1.7B · #9 of 12
🇺🇸 Boston
1/100
$2.0B · #8 of 12
SRC: epoch · forbes · cbi · manual-gaps 1 SQUARE = 1% OF WORLD AI FUNDING
🇰🇷 Seoul
#9 of 12 · hub
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Boston 🇺🇸
#8 of 12 · hub
BARS NORMALIZED PER-ROW TO MAX(L,R) PINK = Seoul · BLUE = Boston
note — Boston runs 1.2× more AI capital than Seoul. 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 ──────────────────────────── ┐
🇰🇷 Seoul 5/11 · $1.7B
🇺🇸 Boston 8/8 · $2.0B
CLICK A TILE → ORG PROFILE BOSTON RUNS 1.2× SEOUL