DeepSeek is preparing to add employees massively. The Chinese artificial intelligence startup wants to at least double the number of employees in each department to accelerate the development of AGI.
Yicai Global quoted Monday, June 29, reported that Hangzhou-based DeepSeek made the announcement after its valuation was reported to have reached 400 billion yuan, or about 58.8 billion US dollars.
"Humanity is on the verge of AGI," said DeepSeek. AGI or artificial general intelligence is general artificial intelligence that is capable of matching or even surpassing human thinking ability.
The company said new employees would have the opportunity to be involved in the most important and critical tasks. They are also said to be "driving forces" in the development of AGI.
DeepSeek was founded in 2023. Its name shot to the global AI stage after releasing DeepSeek-R1, a relatively low-cost AI model, in January last year.
The emergence of DeepSeek-R1 shook the technology industry. Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen called it a "Sputnik AI moment".
DeepSeek reportedly just received Series A funding worth 51 billion yuan, or about 7.5 billion US dollars, earlier this month. Its backers include founder Liang Wenfeng, Tencent Holdings, NetEase, JD.Com, and a number of Chinese technology giants.
The funding round puts DeepSeek's valuation at 400 billion yuan. With this value, DeepSeek is said to be one of the most valuable AI startups in the world.
The company is now opening 33 positions in seven major categories. The field includes full-stack and algorithm development, AI core systems, operations and maintenance, products, data model strategy, deep learning research, and corporate functions.
The work locations are in Beijing and Hangzhou.
The most recruitment is still targeting full-stack and algorithm development, with eight positions. One of them is for the Agent Harness team, which last month had published its own recruitment announcement.
The Agent Harness team focuses on developing code-based AI agents. Senior researcher Chen Deli previously said the team compared its performance to Claude Code, Anthropic's programming tool.
DeepSeek is also opening a special position for cross-disciplinary AI talent. This position is intended for people with "extraordinary abilities" who want to help build and develop AGI, without any limitations on their professional background.
The massive recruitment shows that DeepSeek not only needs funding and new AI models, but also more talent to pursue AGI development.
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