"Global AI Summit" NeurlPS 2025 Top 50 Paper Contributors: China and the United States are "equally matched"
The top 50 contributors to NeurIPS 2025 show that China and the United States are neck and neck in the field of artificial intelligence research, leading ahead of other countries. American companies like Google DeepMind, Meta, and Microsoft, along with top universities such as Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, and MIT, demonstrate a shift in research focus towards industry. Chinese universities like Tsinghua University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Peking University have performed outstandingly, with significant contributions from companies like Alibaba and ByteDance. In contrast, Europe ranks lower, with only a few universities making the list
The top 50 contributors to NeurIPS 2025 show that China and the United States are neck and neck, far ahead of others.
In the United States, corporate labs such as Google DeepMind, Meta, and Microsoft can now compete with top universities like Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, indicating a significant shift in artificial intelligence research towards industry-led AI research.
China's leading universities remain numerous: Tsinghua University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Peking University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Major companies like Alibaba and ByteDance have also achieved remarkable results.
Europe ranks at the bottom, with only the University of Oxford, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, ETH Zurich, and Technical University of Munich making the list among the 27 EU countries.
