Damien Ma
@damienics
Building knowledge venture @CarnegieChina. Previously in Chicago and DC @macropolochina | @KelloggSchool | @eurasiagroup | @theatlantic | @uschinabusiness
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Read the full commentary on data centers and China's excess renewables capacity:
The AI race is also a race for human capital.
@Forbes examines Carnegie China’s latest research on global AI talent, and how changing talent flows are reshaping the global AI landscape.
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Also home of China's permanent magnets industrial complex. I visited Baotou more than a decade ago and then filed this article.
It took DC just as long to really care
Inner Mongolia had long stopped being remembered for Genghis Khan as much as open-pit coal mines. If building lots of AI data centers means that the Mongolian grasslands can be spared of stripping for coal it’d indeed be a great thing!
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The latest figures that @JensenHuang can cite
What does the global AI talent landscape look like in 2025?
Our new Carnegie China study tracks where top AI researchers are working, where they were educated, and how those patterns have changed since 2022.
A few findings:
• 41% work in China vs. 34% in the U.S.
• 57% received their undergraduate degree in China
• NUS and NTU are now both in the global top 20
• Peking University ranks #1# among the top 30 institutions
Read the study:
@elonmusk @finkd @JensenHuang @johnternus @sama @satyanadella @sundarpichai @tim_cook
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Also home of China's permanent magnets industrial complex. I visited Baotou more than a decade ago and then filed this article.
It took DC just as long to really care
Inner Mongolia had long stopped being remembered for Genghis Khan as much as open-pit coal mines. If building lots of AI data centers means that the Mongolian grasslands can be spared of stripping for coal it’d indeed be a great thing!
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However, Beijing does not need every tech champion to rally around the flag.
While it certainly prefers some firms to carry water into new markets, it also wants others to hold their market positions that keep China as an indispensable part of global supply chains.
For example: WuXi’s continued success on the global stage demonstrates that Chinese labs, facilities, and technical know-how cannot simply be designed out of the global supply chain and that Western pharmaceutical companies continue to depend on China.
It’s a political win scored without compelling political fealty. (2/3)
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I wrote about @CarnegieChina 's global AI talent tracker study, freshly updated with 2025 NeurIPS authorship stats.
Over the years, this study has been highly influential, even if you haven't heard about it. Ever wondered where that "China produces 50% of the AI talent" number came from? It's from the 2022 version of this study.
If you are curious about all the new big takeaways (China now produces almost 60% of the world's AI talent 😱 but the US attracts them more after they graduate 🦅), and my interpretation of them, please read on!
There is also a shoehorned Tolkien reference in the end, if that's your thing. We have too many dark Tolkien rebranding in tech, it's time for a wholesome one.
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"The two leaders agreed to use the term “super intelligence” rather than “artificial intelligence” to describe the applicable emerging technologies."
September 26 People's Daily page one on Xi's visit. Zhong Sheng commentator on page two Turning the Constructive China-US Relationship of Strategic Stability from a Vision into Action (Zhong Sheng) 把中美建设性战略稳定关系从愿景转化为行动（钟声） Translation
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There was not much Marco Rubio during the DC summit, whereas he sorta dominated memes during the Beijing summit
"The two leaders agreed to use the term “super intelligence” rather than “artificial intelligence” to describe the applicable emerging technologies."
On mainstream feeds on Chinese social media, a lot of the focus is not on what was discussed, who gained what, or what was promised. It’s about: How was China welcomed? How far did they go? How exceptional was the reception? And what does this say about China’s status as a major power on the world stage today? In that framework, Trump and Melania did very well.
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There was not much Marco Rubio during the DC summit, whereas he sorta dominated memes during the Beijing summit
President Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, Chinese President Xi and First Lady Peng Liyuan at the National Archives.
Who's Ahead in the Global AI Talent Race? Carnegie China's latest study examines the shifting geography of elite AI talent.
“It’s both push and pull.” China has built a “formidable” domestic AI industry, with compensation now “pretty comparable” to Silicon Valley, says Carnegie China Director and report co-author Damien Ma @damienics in @SCMPNews
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BREAKING: President Trump announces Chinese President Xi Jinping has departed Washington after what he described as a meeting of "Friendship, Strength, and Success, for both China and the U.S.A."
Trump also announced plans to meet Xi again in China in November and at the G20 summit in Miami in December.
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Rankings always raise hackles, but this one just seems all over the place.
The Sopranos missed the 21thst century by a year huh, would be #1# probably.
Agree with first 2, but Curb above The Office, c'mon.
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The latest figures that @JensenHuang can cite
What does the global AI talent landscape look like in 2025?
Our new Carnegie China study tracks where top AI researchers are working, where they were educated, and how those patterns have changed since 2022.
A few findings:
• 41% work in China vs. 34% in the U.S.
• 57% received their undergraduate degree in China
• NUS and NTU are now both in the global top 20
• Peking University ranks #1# among the top 30 institutions
Read the study:
@elonmusk @finkd @JensenHuang @johnternus @sama @satyanadella @sundarpichai @tim_cook
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What does the global AI talent landscape look like in 2025?
Our new Carnegie China study tracks where top AI researchers are working, where they were educated, and how those patterns have changed since 2022.
A few findings:
• 41% work in China vs. 34% in the U.S.
• 57% received their undergraduate degree in China
• NUS and NTU are now both in the global top 20
• Peking University ranks #1# among the top 30 institutions
Read the study:
@elonmusk @finkd @JensenHuang @johnternus @sama @satyanadella @sundarpichai @tim_cook
Show more
Rankings always raise hackles, but this one just seems all over the place.
The Sopranos missed the 21thst century by a year huh, would be #1# probably.
Agree with first 2, but Curb above The Office, c'mon.
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