A year ago, the leading Chinese Internet company Tencent Holdings pegged the global number of artificial intelligence researchers and professionals at 300,000 or less—just as the unmet demand for such experts was pushing salary offers to as much as $1 million. In February, the Canadian firm Element AI estimated that talent pool at no more than about 90,000, Bloomberg reported.
Now, Silicon Valley company Diffbot has used its A.I.-powered fact-mining engine to comb the global Web and make its own census of skilled people in the field.
“We found that there’s much more,” Diffbot co-founder and CEO Mike Tung says. Rather... Read more »
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