Schools, prior labs, and current teams.

A mostly China-educated bench may mean more local engineering habits and less dependence on US-lab prestige.

This is not just a returnee story. Chinese universities are producing founders, builders, and lab heads directly.

MSRA, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and similar paths still transmit research and model-building craft.

Some education and career records are still missing, so this shows the visible pattern rather than a complete headcount.