China AI Atlas
A Tech Buzz China research product
Talent Flow View
Schools, prior labs, and current teams.
68
People
30
Schools
27
Western lab alumni
What It Means
directional
100%
DeepSeek's local core
A mostly China-educated bench may mean more local engineering habits and less dependence on US-lab prestige.
China edu
100%
Western path
11%
9/9 tracked DeepSeek people show China education
63%
Domestic pipelines matter
This is not just a returnee story. Chinese universities are producing founders, builders, and lab heads directly.
share of tracked people with a China school signal
40%
Western labs still transmit craft
MSRA, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and similar paths still transmit research and model-building craft.
share with a Western or MSRA-style lab stop
34%
Partial dataset
Some education and career records are still missing, so this shows the visible pattern rather than a complete headcount.
graduate-school records still unknown
LegendresearcherChina schoolUS schoolno Western recordWestern lab / return path