DeepSeek opens 150 engineer roles with zero AI researchers; Mistral raises €3B
快鲤鱼 · wechat · 2026-09-08
Key items from this industry digest:
- DeepSeek's hiring spree: 150 openings, all senior engineers for server-side and agent elastic computing—no AI researchers—driven by exploding scale of data, machines and agent environments.
- Mistral AI raises €3B: Samsung Electronics led, with EU Scaleup Europe Fund and PSG Equity; valuation tops €21B, nearly doubling in a year, with industrial AI as a core focus.
- Perplexity bets on Qwen: New local agent "Portable Computer" built on Alibaba's open-source Qwen3.8-27B, optimized for Nvidia DGX Spark.
- Alibaba launches Qoder Wake 1.0: One-prompt "digital employees" across 10 role templates.
- NetEase Youdao voice agent: Claims 5x keyboard typing efficiency, 124-language translation, fully local and free.
- Firmus–OpenAI deal: OpenAI anchors two Malaysia AI factories, pushing Firmus past 900MW signed capacity on Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 systems.
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