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.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.#deepseek #microsoft #ai