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Maybe worth asking why so many highly qualified people with Chinese last names decide to work for US-based companies when Chinese AI companies have been hiring
by codekansas 4y ago
Maybe worth asking why so many highly qualified people with Chinese last names decide to work for US-based companies when Chinese AI companies have been hiring like crazy for the last six years?
"China can draw on a talent pool of 1.3 billion people, but the United States can draw on a talent pool of 7 billion and recombine them in a diverse culture that enhances creativity in a way that ethnic Han nationalism cannot." - Lee Kuan Yew
- fxtentacle 4y agoI believe that's super easy to answer: VC money. Salaries in the US are a multiple of what they are inside China. And for the top 0.1% on the skill scale, the factor is probably 10x to 100x. Now not everyone reaches that level and many fail and burn (or suffer through un-payable student loans for many years), but still the few people that make it into OpenAI are probably paid 100x of what they could earn in their hometown in Asia.