China leads in AI researchers and publications but trails US in compute and model capabilities
China now has 51,000 active AI researchers compared with 14,000 in the United States, according to Digital Science data cited by Nature. Chinese undergraduates made up 57% of NeurIPS 2025 authors, up from 46% three years earlier, and 69% of those researchers remained in China versus 57% in 2022. Chinese firms such as DeepSeek and Moonshot AI produce models close to US rivals at lower cost, and…
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- China has 51,000 active AI researchers vs 14,000 in US, Digital Science data shows
- Chinese undergraduates were 57% of NeurIPS 2025 authors, up from 46% in 2022
- US private AI investment in 2025 was over 23 times China's, Stanford AI Index reports
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