DeepSeek: China's Push for AI Engineer Graduates Gives It an Edge in the Artificial Intelligence Battle
Australian Financial Review
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- Date Published
- 24 Mar 2025
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- 25 Mar 2025, 10:37 am
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Nearly half the world’s top 20th percentile of AI researchers finished their undergraduate studies in China, well above the 18 per cent share from the US.
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The article highlights China's strategic emphasis on producing AI engineer graduates, which is significantly contributing to the country's competitive edge in the global AI arena. With nearly half of the world's leading AI researchers having completed their undergraduate studies in China, as opposed to 18% in the U.S., this educational focus is framed as a key factor in shifting technological power dynamics. This push aligns with China's broader ambition to surpass U.S. technological dominance, supported by a massive increase in engineering graduates from 5.2 million to 17.7 million between 2000 and 2020. Although the article underscores China's advantages in AI capability building, it does not explicitly address existential or catastrophic AI risks or their policy implications.
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WorldAsiaAIPrint articleMar 25, 2025 – 2.29pmSaveLog inorSubscribeto save articleShareCopy linkCopiedEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookCopy linkCopiedShare via...Gift this articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?LoginDeepSeek has changed how the world sees China. Worries over the country’s “3D” problem – that deflation, debt and demographics are structurally hampering growth – have melted away. Instead, investors are talking about how the world’s second-largest economy can take on the US and challenge its technological dominance.There is the prevailing sense that China’s “engineer dividend” is finally paying off. Between 2000 and 2020, the number of engineers ballooned from 5.2 million to 17.7 million, according to the State Council. That reservoir can help the nation move up the production possibility frontier, the thinking goes.Loading...Bloomberg OpinionSaveLog inorSubscribeto save articleShareCopy linkCopiedEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookCopy linkCopiedShare via...Gift this articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?LoginFollow the topics, people and companies that matter to you.Find out moreRead MoreAIOpinionFetching latest articlesThis is the party you get invited to when you’re a top VC&A customerMatthew DrummondHow the billion-dollar wellness industry took over your holidayWhat rowing taught this CEO about team workBy the time he was 37 this exec was running IBM in AustraliaSally Patten and Lap PhanWhy I quit advertising to set up a haircare company in my late 40sWhat happened when Domain learnt it spent $36m a year on meetingsThe other white burgundy is stepping out of chardonnay’s shadowMax AllenForget tavernas – discover authentic Greek cuisine with the cool crowdHow to make the most of the south of France’s best artProperty billionaire Nick Andrianakos dies in GreeceYolanda RedrupCannon-Brookes describes ‘deep internal conflict’ over his private jetOscar Piastri on the secret of his $41m-a year success