Commentators note US still nets more talent overall
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A counterpoint in the same discussion stresses that despite China's rising share, the US still has the largest net talent gain in Carnegie's sample, while China posts a net loss, meaning the US has not lost its drawing power even as China's output has grown.
“The US still has by far the largest net talent gain: +2,145 in Carnegie's sample. China is at -1,729.”
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But this isn't a story of the US suddenly losing its ability to attract talent. The US still has by far the largest net talent gain: +2,145 in Carnegie's sample. China is at -1,729. What changed is that China now produces so much AI talent, and retains much more of it, that both things can be tru...
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Carnegie report on NeurIPS 2025 authors and AI talent flow. US AI is heavily dependent on attracting talent from PRC. But PRC talent pool is larger than RoW combined. Largest pool of AI talent - capable of publishing at NeurIPS: PRC undergrad → grad school → Chinese company or professoriate. 1....
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Carnegie just dropped its new AI Talent Tracker and the shift since 2022 is pretty striking. Among the NeurIPS researchers in its sample, 57.4% did their undergrad in China, up from 46.3% in 2022. The US fell from 19.8% to 13.3%. But the more interesting change is where they now work
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This might be the most interesting number in the whole report: 3,619 researchers followed a China → China → China path: Chinese undergrad, Chinese grad school, now working in China. China → US → US: 1,071 US → US → US: 1,093 The domestic Chinese AI pipeline is now enormous.
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China has now overtaken the US as the main place these researchers work. 2022: 🇺🇸 46.4% 🇨🇳 27.1% 2025: 🇨🇳 40.6% 🇺🇸 34.2% That's a massive shift in just three years. The old picture of China producing talent that mostly ends up in the US is increasingly outdated.
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