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'Humanity now stands on the eve of AGI': DeepSeek wants to "at least double the size of every department" as company pursues hiring spree in pursuit of AGI

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"Humanity now stands on the eve of AGI"
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China's DeepSeek has announced a major recruitment campaign as it sets out to "at least double the size of every department" as it pursues artificial general intelligence (AGI) (via the South China Morning Post).

"Humanity now stands on the eve of AGI," the company said, as it targets significant growth just three years after it launched as an AI startup.

The company recently completed its first external fundraising round, securing around $7.4 billion at a valuation of more than $50 billion. Around two-fifths of that was said to have come from CEO Liang Wenfeng.

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Conversely, OpenAI said it had a valuation of $852 billion in March.

"DeepSeek’s hiring philosophy is to let newcomers take on the most core and important tasks directly," the firm...

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