US-China AI collaboration remains strong despite rivalry, with 3% of 5,000+ NeurIPS papers co-authored by researchers from both nations; shared models, talent networks keep ecosystems intertwined.

The US and China Are Collaborating More Closely on AI Than You Think

The US and China are, by many measures, archrivals in the field of artificial intelligence, with companies racing to outdo each other on algorithms, models, and specialized silicon. And yet, the world’s AI superpowers still collaborate to a surprising degree when it comes to cutting-edge research.A WIRED analysis of more than 5,000 AI research papers presented last month at the industry’s premier conference, Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), reveals a significant amount of collabo...