The hiring push comes amid additional plans to raise significant funds of roughly $7.4bn.
Chinese AI company DeepSeek will reportedly double the size of all of its departments amid a push to compete with domestic rivals and global leaders in the artificial intelligence space.
DeepSeek announced the hiring plans for technical and engineering professionals on messaging platform WeChat, noting that the company is specifically looking to employ additional data engineers, development engineers and AI cross-disciplinary technical talent.
In mid-June, it was reported that DeepSeek is in the process of raising $7.4bn, which would bring the platform to a post-money valuation of more than $50bn. According to Bloomberg, the organisation is in the final stages of the fundraising, in what will be one of China’s largest start-up fundraising efforts.
The round comes with an odd caveat however, in that it apparently requires investors to put their funds into a limited partnership managed by DeepSeek founder and CEO Liang Wenfeng rather than the company itself. Investors’ funds are also subject to a five-year lock up period and they will not have voting rights.
