Multiple employees at DeepSeek – the fledgling Chinese chatbot that sparked a $1 trillion selloff in US tech stocks last month – previously honed their skills at Microsoft’s controversial artificial-intelligence labs in China, The Post has learned.

At least four current DeepSeek employees, including a key department chief, previously worked at Microsoft Research Asia, according to public profiles on the coding site GitHub and LinkedIn viewed by The Post.<br /><br />Microsoft Research Asia consists of two labs in China – one in Beijing and one in Shanghai. Microsoft has faced mounting political pressure on Capitol Hill about the labs – to the point that top executives like company president Brad Smith and CEO Satya Nadella have reportedly discussed whether it was “tenable” to maintain the facilities.<br /><br />#deepseek <br />#microsoft <br />#ai