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Deepseek wants to take on Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex with "Deepseek Code"
DeepSeek is building a Beijing-based team to develop an AI coding agent called DeepSeek Code, targeting the same market as Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and Cursor.
Deepseek is building a new team in Beijing to develop its own AI code agent, working title "Deepseek Code," a direct competitor to Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Applicants should know agent loops, MCP, and context engineering and be heavy users of existing coding tools.
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