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DeepSeek is doubling its workforce across every department, standing up a new Harness team under former Jane Street quant Cui Tianyi, and building a coding agent product designed to compete with Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex at a fraction of the price. The move marks a clear shift from research lab to commercial product company, and raises a genuine question about whether the cost efficiency that made DeepSeek famous can survive the growth.