Zeki Research's AI Talent 2024 Report

Zeki Research, a UK-based talent intelligence platform, has published a comprehensive report on the state of AI talent in 2024. The report highlights the mobility of top AI talent, with small companies surpassing big tech in hiring efforts, and the health sector outpacing all others in acquiring AI talent.

Drawing on a dataset of 140,000 top AI scientists and engineers globally, Zeki’s analysis provides actionable talent intelligence and extensive data visualization. The report reveals that large companies hire five times more top AI scientists and engineers than the Big Five (Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft), and new AI national champions are emerging outside the USA. Additionally, the health sector, especially in Europe, has seen a twenty-fold increase in top AI talent over the last decade.

Zeki’s insights also shed light on the characteristics of top AI talent that decide to move overseas or stay closer to home, as well as uniform trends that form early in the career of top AI talent. The report celebrates the top AI scientists and engineers who are at the forefront of building transformative technology and highlights the crucial role they play in shaping the global AI landscape.

The author, Zeki co-founder and CEO Tom Hurd, has a strong background in intelligence analysis and has previously served as the Head of the UK’s Homeland Security department. Zeki Research, founded in 2021 by Tom Hurd and Margaux Bergen, is a talent intelligence platform that provides actionable intelligence to governments, companies, and foundations on top talent movement, motivations, and retention. The company’s expertise lies in identifying and attracting promising talent that others may overlook.