1、 A Deep Peek into DeepSeek AIs Talent and Implications for US Innovation By Amy Zegart and Emerson Johnston APRIL APRIL 2121,2025,2025 A collaboration with The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI THE HOOVER INSTITUTION TPA WHITE PAPER SERIES 2 Amy Zegart and Emerson Johnston|A Deep Peek into De

2、epSeek A Deep Peek into DeepSeek AIs Talent and Implications for US Innovation By Amy Zegart and Emerson Johnston Chinese startup DeepSeek AI has upended conventional wisdom about artificial intelligence(AI)innovation.Released in January 2025,the companys R1 language model and V3 general-purpose lar

3、ge language model(LLM)sent tremors through markets and challenged assumptions about American technological superiority in frontier AI development.1 Although DeepSeek AIs claims that its V3 model was trained for just$6 million have been widely disputed(experts estimate the true compute costs are clos

4、er to half a billion dollars,and DeepSeek AI itself says the cost was just for the final training run),the R1 model built on top of V3 demonstrated unprecedented reasoning capabilities and technical achievements that surpassed previous benchmarks set by US companies.Beneath DeepSeeks technical achie

5、vements lies a more consequential story:the shifting patterns of global AI talent that made the companys breakthroughs possible.This paper examines the educational backgrounds,career paths,and international mobility of more than 200 researchers who authored DeepSeeks five foundational papers from Ja

6、nuary 2024 to February 2025.These five papers constitute the corpus of the companys openly available research papers since its founding in 2023.We find striking evidence that China has developed a robust pipeline of homegrown talent.Nearly all of the researchers behind DeepSeeks five papers were edu