@seclink: Self-media is pretty malicious. For example, the following article titled 'Annual Salary of 6 Million to Snatch AI PhDs: Is Studying Worse Than "Entering the Factory to Refine Pills"?' The editor distorted the facts to grab attention... On July 6, according to China News Weekly, at the end of this year's graduation season, Tsinghua University's Department of Computer Science NLP lab released a statistic on graduates' destinations. Among the 14 graduates...
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Tsinghua University NLP lab's graduate destination statistics show that PhDs in large model direction can earn an annual salary of over 6 million yuan, and master's degree holders over 1 million yuan, sparking criticism of self-media's distorted reporting.
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Self-media can be quite malicious. For example, this article titled “Annual Salary of 6 Million to Snatch AI PhDs? Is Studying Worse Than ‘Going to the Lab for Alchemy’?” — the editor distorted the facts to grab attention…
On July 6, according to China News Weekly,
As the graduation season draws to a close, the NLP Lab at Tsinghua University’s Department of Computer Science released a statistical breakdown of graduates’ destinations:
Of the 14 graduates, 4 joined ByteDance, 3 joined companies incubated by the lab, 1 joined DeepSeek, and the rest remained at universities or research institutions.
Anyone familiar with the AI industry understands the weight of this list.
The Tsinghua NLP Lab is one of China’s top-tier large model labs.
According to one of the lab’s academic leaders, Tsinghua professor Liu Zhiyuan, PhD graduates specializing in large models in the group can earn an annual salary of over 6 million yuan, while master’s graduates can also earn over 1 million yuan.
But the other side of the story is that big tech companies can no longer wait for students to graduate.
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