What we learned from 1,604 Chinese AI job postings
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Inferring Chinese AI labs’ strategies from their job descriptions
Gradient Updates What we learned from 1,604 Chinese AI job postings Inferring Chinese AI labs’ strategies from their job descriptions Cheryl Wu , JS Denain , and Anson Ho Jun 24, 2026 57 9 9 Share This post is part of Epoch AI’s Gradient Updates newsletter, which shares more opinionated or informal takes on big questions in AI progress. These posts solely represent the views of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Epoch AI as a whole. All translations were done by Cheryl or Claude Opus 4.8. What’s going on inside Chinese AI companies like Alibaba and DeepSeek? Western obser
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