{"id":43856,"date":"2026-05-19T10:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/43856\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T10:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:51:10","slug":"deepseek-recruits-former-jane-street-engineer-to-catch-up-on-ai-agents-revenue-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/43856\/","title":{"rendered":"DeepSeek recruits former Jane Street engineer to catch up on AI agents, revenue race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese artificial intelligence heavyweight DeepSeek has recruited a former Jane Street star engineer to its new AI \u201charness\u201d team, as it looks to ensure it does not fall behind in the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3353869\/chinese-tech-giants-alibaba-tencent-race-dominate-ai-powered-digital-gateways?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">agentic AI era<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Cui Tianyi joined the Hangzhou start-up in March, according to a post on his LinkedIn profile on Tuesday, after four years at Hong Kong-based quantitative trading firm TSY Capital, which he co-founded in 2022.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The engineer previously spent nearly nine years as a software developer and researcher at renowned US quant trading firm Jane Street in Hong Kong, working across equities and fixed income.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Cui\u2019s arrival underscores DeepSeek\u2019s efforts to develop AI harnesses \u2013 the key software infrastructure that turns an AI model into a functional and autonomous AI agent.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The importance attached to AI harnesses has grown after Claude Code\u2019s source code leaked in late March, underscoring the crucial role of the software infrastructure in building powerful agentic AI products. Photo: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/04439139-39d8-4621-a2f7-e6eac02e707a_98c54a39.jpg\" title=\"The importance attached to AI harnesses has grown after Claude Code\u2019s source code leaked in late March, underscoring the crucial role of the software infrastructure in building powerful agentic AI products. Photo: AP\"\/>The importance attached to AI harnesses has grown after Claude Code\u2019s source code leaked in late March, underscoring the crucial role of the software infrastructure in building powerful agentic AI products. Photo: APAI harnesses have emerged as a major focus area for US and <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3353954\/forget-cellular-data-chinas-telecoms-giants-are-selling-ai-token-plans?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chinese tech giants<\/a> as powerful AI agents like Anthropic\u2019s Claude Code have surged in popularity this year, delivering exponential revenue growth for their developers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese artificial intelligence heavyweight DeepSeek has recruited a former Jane Street star engineer to its new AI \u201charness\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[179,7493,24,26775,53,2699,6657,2798,26776,6010,26774,6726,9752,2700,26773,9755,26772],"class_list":["post-43856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-agentic-ai","tag-agentic-ai","tag-agentic-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-harnesses","tag-anthropic","tag-beijing","tag-bytedance","tag-claude-code","tag-cui-tianyi","tag-deepseek","tag-doubao","tag-hangzhou","tag-high-flyer","tag-hong-kong","tag-jane-street","tag-liang-wenfeng","tag-zhejiang-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}