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Frontier research collapses to three cities

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Analysis of NeurIPS 2025 papers found cutting-edge research is now shaped almost exclusively in Beijing, Shanghai and San Francisco.

Reporting date: 2025-12-29 (not necessarily the event date)

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Frontier research collapses to three cities
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Reporting date: 2025-12-29
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2025-12-29-neurips-three-cities
Claim: Analysis of NeurIPS 2025 papers found cutting-edge research is now shaped almost exclusively in Beijing, Shanghai and San Francisco.
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- Welcome to December 29, 2025 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-december-29-2025
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