All Departments to Expand by at Least 100%: DeepSeek Issues 'Call for Heroes' — Humanity on the Eve of AGI

<p>DeepSeek has issued a 'call for heroes.'</p><p>On June 25, DeepSeek, the leading domestic large model company, released a public announcement to recruit talent widely: DeepSeek's hiring principle is to let newcomers directly take on the most core and important tasks. Here, many quickly grow into top industry professionals and become the backbone driving AGI development.</p><p>DeepSeek stated that humanity is currently on the eve of AGI. Joining DeepSeek allows one to personally witness the development process of AGI, sit at the forefront of the times, and witness the birth of a new era. 'As technology evolves, we are working hard to expand the size of every department by at least double.'</p><p>'We never look for geniuses; as long as you have something that shines within yourself, you are the person we are looking for. Welcome to DeepSeek, let us illuminate the unexplored together,' DeepSeek wrote in its recruitment post.</p><p>According to the job posting, DeepSeek is recruiting for full-stack development/algorithms, AI core system R&D, operations, product departments, model data strategy product managers/engineers, deep learning researchers, and functional departments.</p><p>In the recruitment notice, DeepSeek affectionately calls itself 'Little Whale.' This is not the first time DeepSeek has publicly recruited. Earlier on June 21, Cui Tianyi, head of the DeepSeekHarness team, posted that 'as a newly established department, the DeepSeekHarness team has ambitious goals and heavy workloads, and is still very short-staffed. I interview every day and post small ads everywhere... there are three positions: Harness researcher, Harness engineer, and Harness product manager.'</p><p>Notably, the recruitment poster clearly states 'good Chinese communication skills' as a job requirement, which has been interpreted by outsiders as 'not recruiting foreigners.'</p><p>In response, Cui Tianyi said, 'Just as similar companies in the US require the ability to work in English, DeepSeek requires the ability to work in Chinese. There is no rule against recruiting foreigners.'</p><p>According to him, although the number of vacancies has increased, the recruitment workflow is no different from other DeepSeek teams — generally one written test plus three rounds of interviews, with him serving as the 'final interviewer.' All positions are based in Beijing.</p><p>This is also not the first time Cui Tianyi has recruited on platform X. Cui Tianyi joined DeepSeek in March this year as the head of the Harness team. On May 22, he had already publicly posted recruitment information, saying that 'open positions include research engineers and product managers.'</p><p>Cui Tianyi stated: 'We are transforming DeepSeek's cutting-edge model capabilities into leading Agent products. All work except the model itself falls within the scope of Harness.'</p><p>Just recently, DeepSeek was revealed to have secured its first round of financing exceeding 50 billion yuan.</p><p>According to media reports, founder Liang Wenfeng personally contributed approximately 20 billion yuan, making him the largest single investor in this round; Tencent contributed about 10 billion yuan; CATL system contributed about 5 billion yuan, including CATL and Puquan Capital; NetEase, JD.com, Monolith, and IDG Capital each contributed about 3 billion yuan; Zhenxing Investment and Shixiang Technology each contributed about 1.5 billion yuan.</p><p>It is understood that Liang Wenfeng's most important requirement for both major companies and VC funds is: do not poach DeepSeek's people, or suggest they leave to start their own businesses.</p><p>A reporter from The Paper asked DeepSeek insiders about the relevant situation and learned that this account is basically true.</p><p>DeepSeek was once well-known in the industry for not pursuing commercialization. Relying on High-Flyer Capital behind founder Liang Wenfeng, DeepSeek has strong technical strength and computing power foundation in quantitative trading and intelligent finance. It is also one of the first domestic large model companies to have a 10,000-GPU cluster. In the view of industry insiders, Liang Wenfeng is a person with AI faith, and the technological romanticism he insists on is very well-known.</p><p>DeepSeek's financing journey has also been interpreted by outsiders as a game between AI idealism and commercialization. The large-scale talent recruitment is undoubtedly DeepSeek's new strategy in the AI talent arms race.</p>