Han Kyonh News: Chinese Scientists Take Half of the Top AI Talents in the World

Han Kyonh News, Seoul, July 9th - According to the latest global artificial intelligence field top scientists list, half of the top 100 scholars are Chinese, highlighting China's core intellectual advantage in the global AI competition.

The report "Global AI Top 100 Talent List" jointly released by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization China Investment Promotion Office (UNIDO ITPO China) and Shenzhen Dongbi Technology shows that based on the analysis of 97,000 high-quality papers published by 200,000 researchers worldwide between 2015 and 2024, 50 of the 100 top scientists are Chinese scholars, including corporate R&D backbone such as Tian Qi, Wang Yunpeng, and Xie Lingxi from Huawei. At the same time, the global AI institution top 100 list also showed that Chinese institutions occupied 38 spots, surpassing the 35 spots of the United States.

The report further reveals that the US and China dominate the global AI research landscape: the total number of researchers from both countries accounts for nearly 60% of the world's total. The United States has 63,000 AI researchers, leading the way, while China follows closely with 53,000. The scale of China's AI talents has experienced explosive growth - from less than 10,000 in 2015 to over 52,000 in 2024.

International technology giants are accelerating the competition for top Chinese AI talents. Meta last month used a lightning strategy to recruit at least 8 Chinese scientists from OpenAI, including key figures such as Ren Hongyu, a Tsinghua University alumnus who led the GPT-4o multimodal model, and Zhao Shengjia, with Peking University background; NVIDIA has recruited Tsinghua University alumni Chen Zhenghua and Zhao Jiantao to join its enterprise-level AI agent research team.

In response, NVIDIA CEO Huang Renxun once publicly commented: "Half of the AI researchers in the world come from China, and there are Chinese researchers active in every AI laboratory in the United States." Analysts point out that the deep mathematical and scientific foundation of Chinese basic education is becoming a key force supporting global AI breakthroughs.

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