DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup that rattled Silicon Valley earlier this year with its efficient open-source models, is scaling up fast. The company is on a hiring tear for infrastructure and engineering talent, posting dozens of technical roles as it builds out data centers and optimizes its models for domestic hardware.
From Nvidia to Huawei, with purpose
DeepSeek released a preview of its V4 AI model on April 24, optimized specifically for Huawei’s Ascend chips. That’s a meaningful departure from the company’s earlier playbook, which leaned heavily on Nvidia’s H800 GPUs, the export-compliant variants that Washington allowed to slip through before tightening restrictions further.
What made DeepSeek famous in the first place was its ability to squeeze remarkable performance out of constrained hardware. Its models used architectural tricks like Mixture-of-Experts, a technique that activates only a fraction of a model’s parameters for any given task, dramatically cutting compute costs.
A $50B company goes on a hiring spree
