Exclusive | DeepSeek hired talent from Microsoft’s controversial AI research lab in China

Multiple employees at DeepSeek – the fledgling Chinese chatbot that sparked a $1 trillion selloff in US tech stocks last month – previously honed their skills at Microsoft’s controversial artificial-intelligence labs in China, The Post has learned.

At least four current DeepSeek employees, including a key department chief, previously worked at Microsoft Research Asia, according to public profiles on the coding site GitHub and LinkedIn viewed by The Post.

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