{
  "title": "Talent in the 2021 report",
  "report_year": 2021,
  "period": "Historical snapshot: October 2021. Dates and populations are specified per row.",
  "methodology": "Relative hiring growth is not absolute workforce size. The PhD comparison is a historical projection, and informal polling of compute budgets is not a representative survey.",
  "source_deck": "https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bwJDRC777rAf00Drthi9yT2c9b0MabWO5ZlksfvFzx8/edit?usp=sharing",
  "web_edition_date": "2026-10-11",
  "rows": [
    {
      "measure": "Brazil and India AI hiring growth",
      "value": "More than 3x",
      "definition": "Relative to each country’s 2017 level in the cited comparison.",
      "printed_slide": 76,
      "pdf_page": 76,
      "source_url": "https://www.stateof.ai/State-of-AI-Report-2021.pdf#page=76"
    },
    {
      "measure": "China-US STEM PhD projection",
      "value": "Nearly 2x by 2025",
      "definition": "Projection presented in 2021; STEM is broader than AI.",
      "printed_slide": 78,
      "pdf_page": 78,
      "source_url": "https://www.stateof.ai/State-of-AI-Report-2021.pdf#page=78"
    }
  ]
}