Stockholm vs Bay Area
Bay Area has 238× more AI funding than Stockholm. Across 3 dimensions — funding, models, compute, orgs — one country pulls the AI race forward; the other chases.
LIVE
#1 = Bay Area RATIO 238× SHARE OF WORLD · 80/100 UPDATED 2026-05-08
Stockholm 1/100 Bay Area 79/100 rest of world 20/100
Together =
80%
of all AI funding tracked worldwide.
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🇸🇪 Stockholm
1/100
$1.4B · #10 of 12
🇺🇸 Bay Area
79/100
$323.8B · #1 of 12
SRC: epoch · forbes · cbi · manual-gaps 1 SQUARE = 1% OF WORLD AI FUNDING
🇸🇪 Stockholm
#10 of 12 · hub
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Bay Area 🇺🇸
#1 of 12 · hub
BARS NORMALIZED PER-ROW TO MAX(L,R) PINK = Stockholm · BLUE = Bay Area
note — Bay Area runs 238× more AI capital than Stockholm. 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 BAY AREA RUNS 241× STOCKHOLM · NARROW SIDE FLOORED FOR LEGIBILITY