Why Open Source AI Talent is Flowing Back to China
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-07-19
The post points out: people keep asking "why Yang Zhilin is returning to China," but the real question is why top US universities with high QS rankings need Tsinghua undergrads to build an open-source model lab.
An attached image shows a QS-style university ranking interface, using the visual to emphasize the global flow and competition surrounding AI talent and the construction of open-source labs.
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