DeepSeek recruits former Jane Street engineer to catch up on AI agents, revenue race

Chinese AI company DeepSeek has hired Cui Tianyi, a former Jane Street engineer, to join its new AI agents team as the company seeks to compete in the rapidly evolving agentic AI market. Cui previously co-founded and worked at TSY Capital, a Hong Kong-based quantitative trading firm, and spent nearly nine years at Jane Street before that.