- DeepSeek wants to double its workforce
- “Humanity is now on the eve of the IGY”
- US Customers Buy DeepSeek Models
Chinese company DeepSeek has announced a major recruitment drive with the aim of “at least doubling the size of each department” as part of its artificial general intelligence (AGI) development (via the South China Morning Post).
“Humanity is now on the cusp of AGI,” said the company, which is aiming for significant growth just three years after launching as an AI startup.
The company recently completed its first external fundraising round, securing approximately $7.4 billion at a valuation of more than $50 billion. About two-fifths of that sum is believed to come from CEO Liang Wenfeng.
DeepSeek launches a major recruitment wave
Conversely, OpenAI reported a valuation of $852 billion in March.
“DeepSeek’s hiring philosophy is to empower newcomers to take on the most critical and important tasks directly,” the company said in a statement, implying that it is not looking for “geniuses” immediately.
SCMP notes that the company is hiring server-side development engineers, pre-training data engineers, and supercomputing cluster R&D engineers.
The new product management hires also indicate that DeepSeek may look to build more customer-facing products and pursue other business opportunities, marking a shift from its initial search focus.
DeepSeek itself is in a tricky position globally, with ongoing US restrictions continuing to limit access to advanced GPUs like Nvidia’s latest generation hardware. The company already has a partnership with Chinese giant Huawei and is tweaking its models to run efficiently on its partner’s chips.
But global opportunities could open up for the company, with previous reports indicating that U.S. companies are increasingly buying DeepSeek models because they are more cost-effective than U.S. alternatives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others.
When it comes to hiring, it’s likely the company will focus on its Hangzhou headquarters and R&D facilities in Beijing, but future expansions driven by global interest could see the company begin to expand its presence beyond China.
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