META spent 200 million USD to sign a Chinese engineer from OpenAI. This has recently made headlines in the news media.

But in reality, this is no longer a rare occurrence. The number of tech talents who can be considered AI experts worldwide is less than four digits, accounting for one in ten million of the global population.

This scarce resource cannot be measured by money. With so many top technology companies around the world, not even five people from each company can be matched. This is a very serious mismatch between supply and demand.

Actually, Meta previously spent 14.8 billion USD to acquire a company called ScaleAi, founded by Alex Wong. The purpose of acquiring this company was to recruit this person and his talent team. Even more amazing is that Alex is also of Chinese descent.

You have to say that Silicon Valley is undoubtedly the place in the world that can sell talent for a good price because it is truly priced by market supply and demand.

Those highly intelligent scientists who remain in the country ultimately cannot match their value without resources and practical abilities, and are even labeled as bookworms. Only a sufficiently rich abstract environment and industry can allow their thinking to be put to use.

In this world, whether in industry or the internet, the infrastructure has been built on a framework supported by Chinese people as the core. However, the pricing power has always been in the hands of the United States. Therefore, our understanding of this world is not as we imagine it to be. There are some things that we cannot capture from the bottom of our hearts, yet they truly affect the historical development trajectory of the entire world.