China’s big tech corporations are competing to secure global talent by offering lots of of hundreds of thousands of annual salaries and unprecedented advantages to draw artificial intelligence (AI) talent. Evaluation suggests that that is as a consequence of the rapid increase in demand for natural language processing (NLP) experts in China.
The South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on the eleventh that the demand for NLP experts, essential for AI learning, across China in the primary half of this yr increased 111% in comparison with the previous yr, citing a report by Peking University in Hong Kong and recruitment platform Jilian Zhaopin.
Their average monthly salary is 24,007 yuan (about 4.66 million won), which is significantly higher than the common monthly salary of IT employees in China, which is 11,000 yuan (about 2.13 million won).
Specifically, China’s big tech corporations are offering unprecedented salaries to draw top talent. The evaluation is that such high salaries reflect the urgency of recruitment and at the identical time show a shortage of high-quality AI talent in China.
Amongst them, Xiaomi plans to carry a special recruitment session for experts in various AI fields, including AI models, computer vision, deep learning, autonomous driving, and natural language processing. We plan to hurry up hiring through the ‘fast track’ system, which skips the written test for some applicants and reviews applications directly on the relevant business department.
As well as, leading Chinese corporations resembling TikTok’s parent company ByteDance, search engine company Baidu, and food delivery company Meituan are expanding their recruitment of AI talent.
China’s AI jobs even have distinct characteristics of their regional distribution.
In accordance with the report, Beijing accounts for about one-fifth of AI-related jobs in China as a consequence of its many educational institutions, technology research facilities, and startups, followed by Shenzhen, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Hangzhou as major AI hubs.
Nonetheless, it’s identified that concerns are being raised that the concentration of enormous cities may deepen the technological gap with inland areas.
Reporter Park Chan cpark@aitimes.com
