Major cities
The Index · GeographiesThe world's major metros, on the absolute AI capacity concentrated in them and on that capacity per person.
What this measures
Metro Power weighs the AI investment a metro attracts, its notable AI organisations, its AI talent and technical workforce, its economic mass and its compute.
The Metro Coefficient reads the same capacity per resident.
Scores run 0 to 100. The top 10 metros · updated 21 Oct 2026.
Metro Power: components and weightsThe method in full →
| 01 |  New York | US | 87.1 | 75.9 |
| 02 | San Francisco Bay Area | US | 85.4 | 98.6 |
| 03 |  Beijing | Asia-Pacific | 83.8 | 72.7 |
| 04 | Shanghai | Asia-Pacific | 80.8 | 66.2 |
| 05 |  Tokyo | Asia-Pacific | 80.3 | 58.9 |
| 06 | Shenzhen | Asia-Pacific | 77.9 | 69.7 |
| 07 |  London | Europe | 76.4 | 69.2 |
| 08 |  Seoul | Asia-Pacific | 75.2 | 61.5 |
| 09 | Los Angeles | US | 74.9 | 64.7 |
| 10 |  Paris | Europe | 72.2 | 59.8 |
Index scores are model outputs, not predictions. Where an input is missing it is estimated and marked as an estimate in the full dataset.
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