tae kim(@firstadopter):To argue that Yang Zhilin went back to China because it was easier to start an AI company and raise funds there is ludicrous. You think American VCs wouldn’t fund a superstar AI researcher with a PhD from Carnegie Mellon and a degree from Tsinghua? Look at his rockstar background below. Let’s take away all immigration friction pretense. Why not do everything we can to make it easier and retain superstar talent? Staple green cards to the top 10 AI computer science PhD degrees NOW. Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, etc. It would be a massive success. The USA can run the table on global AI talent. We just need to use our brains.

2026.07.19 12:49

To argue that Yang Zhilin went back to China because it was easier to start an AI company and raise funds there is ludicrous. You think American VCs wouldn’t fund a superstar AI researcher with a PhD from Carnegie Mellon and a degree from Tsinghua? Look at his rockstar background below. Let’s take away all immigration friction pretense. Why not do everything we can to make it easier and retain superstar talent? Staple green cards to the top 10 AI computer science PhD degrees NOW. Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, etc. It would be a massive success. The USA can run the table on global AI talent. We just need to use our brains.