Four things you need to know about China’s AI talent pool

Researchers from China make up over one-quarter of the world’s top AI experts, and they are increasingly staying put rather than moving overseas.

Ruihan Huang as featured on MIT Technology Review

In 2019, MIT Technology Review covered a report that shined a light on how fast China’s AI talent pool was growing. Its main finding was pretty interesting: the number of elite AI scholars with Chinese origins had multiplied by 10 in the previous decade, but relatively few of them stayed in China for their work. The majority moved to the US. 

Now the think tank behind the report has published an updated analysis, showing how the makeup of global AI talent has changed since—during a critical period when the industry has shifted significantly and become the hottest technology sector.