At 10 PM Beijing Time on June 25, 2024, DeepSeek released a new recruitment announcement to expand the scale of all its departments by at least double, covering seven major categories of positions including full-stack development, AI core system R&D, operations and maintenance, products, and functions. The company stated a principle of "allowing new employees to directly take on the most core and important tasks" to cultivate backbone forces for AGI development during a critical phase of general artificial intelligence R&D.