Top 30 AI researchers by citations: 12 born in the EU, yet zero European firms in top 40
Impossible-Humor-182 · reddit · 2026-10-18
A chart based on Google Scholar citations (Oct 1, 2026) ranks birthplaces of the top 30 AI researchers: EU 12, US 8, China 5, plus one each from Australia, India, Türkiye, Vietnam, and Russia. Bengio (1.16M citations), Hinton (1.09M), and Kaiming He (880K) lead. The poster highlights the contrast: despite the EU's talent mass, Mistral's market cap is just 1/35th of OpenAI's, and no European company appears among the 40 largest public AI companies.
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