A Chinese university overtook MIT, Stanford and Harvard in AI

1 Chinese university received more patents in the field of artificial intelligence than the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford, Princeton and Harvard combined. And this is not a coincidence — this is the result of a coordinated national strategy.

From 2005 to 24, Tsinghua University received almost 5 thousand patents in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning. 900 of them — just last year alone.

And in total, China now accounts for more than half of all active patent families in these areas. This is wow!

It turns out, Tsinghua University implements a nationwide educational strategy that starts in elementary school. Where artificial intelligence is taught alongside mathematics and language. The result — a much wider circle of technically savvy personnel than in the USA.

In year 20, China graduated 3.5 million students in this field. In the USA — only 820 thousand. And last year the Chinese newspaper “Renmin Ribao” reported: the annual number of graduates reached 5 million.

In Tsinghua’s laboratories, they developed the AI chip Accel, the virtual screening system DrugCLIP and the training protocol Absolute Zero Reasoner, allowing models to learn independently without data from humans.

But the USA still owns the most influential patents and the most effective models. And American universities developed 40 significant models in year 24 versus 15 Chinese ones.

But Chinese universities are rapidly closing the gap.