China’s AI Hiring Surge Hits Overdrive

China’s AI Hiring Surge Hits Overdrive
According to Xinhua reports from June 1st, China’s AI sector is experiencing an absolutely unprecedented hiring surge. Tech companies are literally fighting over skilled AI professionals, and it’s getting intense.

Universities are scrambling to expand AI-related programs to meet demand. This is part of China’s bigger push to dominate AI by 2030, and honestly, the numbers are staggering. They’re targeting 300 EFLOP/s of compute capacity by 2025 (they had 246 EFLOP/s by June 2024).

For us developers, this means AI skills are becoming even more valuable globally. If you’re not learning AI/ML stuff yet, you’re seriously missing out.