"I think talent is very distributed globally." We spoke with Mike Knoop (@mikeknoop) about talent in AI research: "Most teams on the leaderboard from past years of the Arc Contest, a large percentage of them are outside of the United States." "We launched Arc Prize to show young folks can have a large impact with little budget and encourage them if they have new ideas towards AGI, to work on those as opposed to just starting the next language model startup."