Stanford, Harvard Grads Seek China AI Startup Jobs, Founder Says

Graduates from top US schools including Harvard University and Stanford University are flooding an up-and-coming Chinese AI startup with resumes after DeepSeek’s debut earlier this year helped elevate the profiles of fellow emerging technology builders in China.

That’s a sea change from years past, when it was challenging to hire engineers even from Chinese universities, said Victor Huang, co-founder and chairman of Manycore Tech Inc.

The fortune of the startup took a turn for the better after it was labeled as one of the “Six Dragons” of the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou together with DeepSeek, whose lower ...