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Chinese AI company DeepSeek is planning to launch an AI search engine and develop more automated software, according to a report by Bloomberg News. The plans were reportedly revealed in multiple job adverts from the company this month.

According to Bloomberg, DeepSeek is seeking to hire specialists to build a search engine that supports multiple languages. The planned search tool is multimodal, meaning it can understand and process a range of inputs from text to images and audio. It is also looking for workers to develop AI “agents”, which are tools that can perform tasks with little human input, as per the report.

The move signals the company’s next big step after the success of its earlier AI model, named R1, according to the report. Other leading AI companies, such as OpenAI and Google, are also investing in similar search and agent technology. DeepSeek’s job ads repeated its goal to build advanced artificial general intelligence, or AGI - a type of AI that could match or exceed human ability in many areas.