Global Artificial Intelligence Research Situation Report released for the first time, China and the U.S. AI talent "double strength"

At the 2025 Global Digital Economy Conference, a report based on an in-depth analysis of nearly 200,000 scholars and 97,000 high-quality AI papers from around the world, the Global AI Research Landscape Report (2015-2024), was released by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization's Office of Investment and Technology Promotion and Dongbi Tech Data jointly released. The report shows that the distribution of global AI research talent is characterized by significant imbalance and geographical concentration. The number of researchers in the United States and China together accounted for 57.71 TP3T globally, highlighting the dominance of the two countries in the field. The number of AI researchers in China has increased from less than 10,000 in 2015 to a size of 52,000 in 2024, demonstrating an impressive tension with a compound annual growth rate of 28.7%. Among them, 3,453 are from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2,667 are from Tsinghua University, and 2,123 are from Peking University, and these university talents constitute the first echelon of AI talents in China. On the other hand, the R&D teams of Tencent, Alibaba and other tech companies have surpassed some of the power universities with 992 and 633 people respectively. The U.S. leads the world with more than 63,000 talents, of which 2,385 are from Stanford University and 2,191 are from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, forming a double engine of universities and enterprises with 2,569 from Google and 2,461 from Microsoft. (Beijing Daily)