What we learned from 1,604 Chinese AI job postings | Epoch AI
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Inferring Chinese AI labs’ strategies from their job descriptions
What’s going on inside Chinese AI companies like Alibaba and DeepSeek? Western observers usually answer this question in two ways: (1) read through their technical papers, and (2) voraciously consume news reports and follow everything about Chinese AI on X. But there’s a third approach that people have rarely explored: scrape Chinese AI job postings. Chinese labs need to hire the right people, so in their job descriptions they need to reveal what skills or expertise they’re looking for. These give us direct clues into what constraints they face and what they hope to build. So like we…
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