The majority - 59 percent to be exact - of the top-tier artificial intelligence (AI) researchers work for universities and companies in the United States. Ranked second is China that is home to around 11 percent of the leading AI researchers, followed by Europe with ten percent.
Regional distribution of institutions where leading artificial intelligence (AI) researchers work as of 2019
The source adds: "Country affiliations are based on the headquarters of institutions in which the researcher currently work."
The source has defined top-tier AI researchers as the top 20 percent of AI researchers with papers accepted at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2019 conference.
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