DeepSeek hires 150 engineers, zero researchers; Mistral raises $3.5B
创业邦 · wechat · 2026-09-09
A roundup of AI industry news from Chuangyebang:
- DeepSeek opened 150 roles, all senior engineers in server-side dev and Agent elastic computing — no AI researchers. Harness lead Cui Tianyi cited exploding scale of data, machines, training/eval jobs and agent environments.
- Mistral AI raised €3B ($3.5B) led by Samsung Electronics at a €21B+ post-money valuation, nearly doubling in a year, with industrial AI as its key differentiator.
- Perplexity launched a local agent built on Qwen3.8-27B, optimized for NVIDIA DGX Spark for file processing, data analysis and coding.
- Alibaba released QoderWake 1.0, a digital-employee product that turns a one-line job description into a configurable AI worker across 10 role templates.
- NetEase Youdao launched voice agent "Bage", claiming 5x keyboard typing efficiency, 124-language live translation, local processing, free download.
- Firmus signed a multi-year deal with OpenAI to supply compute from two Malaysia AI factories (900+ MW total contracted), deploying NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 systems.
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