A new Stanford HAI analysis of DeepSeek's research team reveals just how quickly China's AI talent base is maturing. Ch…
By Mark Kretschmann · Research
A new Stanford HAI analysis of DeepSeek's research team reveals just how quickly China's AI talent base is maturing. China now has a large, rapidly improving and increasingly self-sufficient frontier AI talent pipeline. Anyone still assuming the US has an unassailable lead is asleep at the wheel. DeepSeek's author pool grew from 223 to 356 researchers in a single year, while their median citation count more than doubled. Over half built their entire careers inside China, and even among those…