Financial Times: China Aggressively Luring Top AI Talent Back from Silicon Valley
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The Financial Times reports on China's intensifying campaign to recruit top AI researchers and engineers back from Silicon Valley, offering competitive compensation, research autonomy, and government-backed lab resources. The story surfaces amid broader U.S.-China AI tensions, including the recent Frontier Model Forum intelligence-sharing agreement between OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to counter Chinese model theft via adversarial distillation. The brain drain compounds existing concerns about competitive advantage in frontier AI development.