[DeepSeek Plans to Expand Team to 1,000 Members This Year, Doubling Staff Just Two Months Ago] Beating AI News Flash: A frontline institutional investor revealed that DeepSeek aims to expand its team to approximately 1,000 members this year. While DeepSeek has not officially confirmed this figure, the expansion is already underway. In June, the company announced that all departments would at least double in size, and this week, it opened around 150 backend and Agent infrastructure positions in one go. This round of expansion is no longer solely focused on model research. The latest hiring spans areas such as large model research platforms, Agent frameworks, APIs, online services, data engineering, and elastic computing. Harness team leader Cui Tianyi stated that data, machines, training and evaluation tasks, Agent environments, and user requests are all rapidly increasing, necessitating continuous upgrades or even complete rewrites of the existing backend systems. [Original Article Link]