United Arab Emirates has more orgs but no recorded funding; Tunisia leads on capital. Across 4 dimensions — funding, models, compute, orgs — one country pulls the AI race forward; the other chases.
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#1 = Tunisia RATIO ∞×SHARE OF WORLD · 1/100UPDATED 2026-05-08
01 — Share of world
Tunisia 1/100United Arab Emirates 0/100rest of world 99/100
Together =
1%
of all AI funding tracked worldwide.
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🇹🇳 Tunisia
1/100
$100M · #24 of 40
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
0/100
$0 · #25 of 40
SRC: epoch · forbes · cbi · manual-gaps1 SQUARE = 1% OF WORLD AI FUNDING
02 — Head-to-head
🇹🇳Tunisia
#24 of 40 · country
━━ vs ━━
United Arab Emirates🇦🇪
#25 of 40 · country
BARS NORMALIZED PER-ROW TO MAX(L,R)PINK = Tunisia · BLUE = United Arab Emirates
note — Tunisia runs ∞× more AI capital than United Arab Emirates. 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 ──────────────────────────── ┐
🇹🇳Tunisia1/1 · $100M
🇦🇪United Arab Emirates3/7 · $4.6B
CLICK A TILE → ORG PROFILE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES RUNS 46× TUNISIA · NARROW SIDE FLOORED FOR LEGIBILITY