Chinese DeepSeek prepares hiring wave amid AI talent battle

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DeepSeek has launched a major hiring campaign to double many of its teams and speed up the commercialization of its AI technology. The company is shifting from a research-focused lab toward a product company while preparing its first external funding round. It is hiring across product, operations, infrastructure, and data roles, with a strong emphasis on building vertical AI applications and the infrastructure needed to train and run large language models. The company is also working with Huawei to adapt its models to Ascend chips as it seeks to reduce dependence on Nvidia hardware.

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