> 2022 By the 2025 Marco Polo snapshot, Chinese *overall top researcher production* had increased, but *retention* had plummeted. The US's advantage on China is 5.5x, equal to the Chinese advantage on India! Pretty wild stuff. Data: NeurIPS & ICML 2024, ICLR 2025
World’s top 20% AI researchers - almost half of them did undergraduate in China.