> Most of the researchers are specifically in a handful of big labs, most of which in turn are in the USA. Looking at https://paperswithcode.com/greatest https

> Most of the researchers are specifically in a handful of big labs, most of which in turn are in the USA. Looking at https://paperswithcode.com/greatest https://paperswithcode.com/greatest a lot of the papers come from US labs - but there are also quite a few that come from Chinese labs. And consider the case when an influential paper comes out of a Microsoft research lab with the authors He, Zhang, Ren and Sun; obviously you can't guess someone's nationality just from their name - but I think it's naive to think the US has any sort of guaranteed monopoly on ML. Especially if the US decided to send the message that ML research isn't welcome.