Gregory's ServerThere is amazing work going on, but it's not quite that far away.
https://airankings.org/ is a good illustration for what I mean.
You can see that Chinese universities clearly have a growing and might soon be dominant presence. But it's uneven. Clearly dominating in computer vision and NLP, soon to be dominant for machine learning, but no presence in robotics.
@zzz I think the whole domestic high tech push is fairly recent, so it's not too surprising it's uneven at the moment. It's gonna be interesting to see where it all goes in a decade or so.