DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup based in Hangzhou, is actively looking to hire talent from around the world. After a prolonged period of inactivity, the company has posted 10 new job listings on LinkedIn. Most of these listings are in Mandarin and focus on roles related to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) in their offices located in Beijing and Hangzhou.
This is also the first time DeepSeek is advertising positions outside of China, indicating its intention to attract international talent.
The employment surge is taking place with a global talent war being waged. International tech giants such as Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft are also taking part in this. DeepSeek is sending a clear signal of its intention to compete internationally with this hiring program.
The positions DeepSeek calls for are mostly made for research and development in advanced AI. This mirrors what its US-based competitors have been aggressively attempting to do. With the advancement of AI evolution, hiring the best engineers and researchers is becoming the key way to win in the field.
The company had recently made headlines for its R1 model. This AI is said to be a highly advanced reasoning machine that gives performance akin to OpenAI’s GPT-4 at a fraction of the cost. This has put DeepSeek among the most promising AI startups in China.
With around 160 employees in tow, the company has garnered attention for its innovation-first process, quite oriented on cost-based development.
DeepSeek is an ambitious set of Chinese AI firms that are behind in a race with the West in AGI and large language models. Chinese tech ecosystems are spending huge resources into matters of research, development, and talent acquisition.
Firms like DeepSeek lay down the thin end of influence outside domestic markets. Its LinkedIn presence, a domain mostly used outside China, is testimony to this change.
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DeepSeek's hiring spree underscores China's ambitions in the global AI landscape. The startup is focused on developing Artificial General Intelligence and is actively recruiting talent from around the world.
The company has now positioned itself as a serious competitor to American giants like OpenAI and Google. As the competition for AI talent intensifies, DeepSeek's growth is likely to significantly reshape the competitive landscape by 2025 and in the years to come.