Deepseek wants to take on Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex with "Deepseek Code"

Deepseek is building a new team in Beijing to develop its own AI code agent, working title "Deepseek Code," a direct competitor to Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Applicants should know agent loops, MCP, and context engineering and be heavy users of existing coding tools. The article Deepseek wants to take on Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex with "Deepseek Code" appeared first on The Decoder .