Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, founded in 2023 by Liang Wenfeng and funded by High-Flyer, has launched a significant recruitment campaign offering annual salaries up to 148,000 euros to attract top-tier talent. This move comes in response to the company's rapid growth and the need to stabilize its services following the global success of its AI models, R1 and V3. DeepSeek, with its current workforce of 150 employees, has published at least 37 job offers targeting fresh graduates and experienced professionals. The company's open-source models have been integrated into major Chinese cloud platforms such as Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, and Huawei, challenging global tech giants like OpenAI and Google, and even surpassing OpenAI's ChatGPT in app downloads. DeepSeek's services are 95% cheaper than OpenAI's o1 model. Despite its success, the company faces scrutiny over cybersecurity and safety concerns, with its R1 model failing some safety tests.