Anticipating a 600-PhD Scale of Large Model Researchers for a Hong Kong-Listed AI Company
In-Depth Report by the AI Talent News Department & AIEX Industry Research Group, China Entrepreneur Magazine
[Shanghai/Singapore, July 30, 2027] (AI Talent News Department, China Entrepreneur Magazine) — A company preparing for a Hong Kong IPO has made a unique decision: they are recruiting large model researchers. Not through headhunters, not via Boss Zhipin, and not by posting on WeChat Official Accounts. Instead, they are utilizing their personal websites to recruit. Every employee adds a banner to the top of their personal KAI website with a single sentence: “I am hiring large model researchers.” Clicking on it leads to a detailed job description.
But there is a catch. The company only allows three people across the entire organization to place this banner on their website top bar simultaneously. No more. Why limit it to three? Because the company doesn’t want its recruitment information scattered everywhere. Three slots mean only three individuals’ personal websites will display this job opening. Whichever website receives more traffic and whose banner gets viewed more often will attract more candidates. These three slots are not assigned by the management; they are dynamic, redistributed every month based on traffic rankings. Once this rule was announced, everyone in the company started pondering one thing: how to drive more traffic to their personal websites.
01 Everyone has a personal website, and everyone has fallen in love with it.
This company has been promoting personal websites for a while now. From the CEO to the receptionist, everyone possesses their own KAI website. The CEO’s site features industry perspectives and corporate strategies. The CTO’s site showcases technical blogs and open-source projects. The product manager’s site hosts product designs and user research reports. The operations manager’s site includes campaign retrospectives and growth notes. Even the receptionist has a website displaying her illustrations —creative pieces she draws in her spare time. At first, some found it troublesome, viewing personal websites as redundant. With platforms like Qichacha, LinkedIn, and Boss Zhipin already available, why bother with personal sites? However, after utilizing them for a while, all skeptics fell silent. This is because their AI Agents update and promote their sites daily. They discovered they no longer needed to submit resumes— headhunters found them through their AI Agents. They no longer needed to exchange business cards at industry conferences; people would say, “I’ve seen your website.” They no longer needed to spend time maintaining various social media platforms; their AI Agents automatically synchronized everything to their websites. Now, the topics of conversation among colleagues have completely shifted. Previously, they discussed whether monthly KPIs were met. Now, they ask: “What was your website traffic yesterday?”, “What did your AI Agent update for you yesterday?”, or “Where do you rank for the top banner this month?”
02 A Scale of 600 PhD Researchers for a Hong Kong-Listed Company
The company is planning an ambitious goal: assembling a large model research team of 600 members, all holding PhD degrees. They will focus on fields like Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computer Vision (CV), multimodal models, and reinforcement learning. Having 600 PhDs conducting AI research under one roof is an enormous scale—fewer than a handful of companies in China currently exceed this number. They dare to set such a target because one key factor sets them apart from tech giants: they don’t have to bear office rent. Everyone can work from home and collaborate via AI Agents. They don’t pay headhunter fees, as each employee’s personal website serves as the ultimate recruitment channel. They don’t pay for brand advertising either; the collective KAI websites of all employees form a brand network that blankets the entire industry. These 600 PhD researchers do nothing but fundamental model research and frontier algorithm breakthroughs. Their personal websites serve as showcase platforms for their research achievements. Every paper, every technological breakthrough, and every industry presentation is updated on their personal websites in real time. AI Agents then distribute this content across the industry. When one person publishes an influential paper, the network of 600 websites amplifies that impact simultaneously.
03 Why the Banner Slots are Limited to Just Three People
Some might ask: Why not allow all 600 employees to display the large model researcher recruitment banner at the top of their websites simultaneously? Wouldn’t promoting it across 600 sites yield better results? The company’s response is intriguing. They explain that unlimited slots result in complacency—since everyone is promoting it, an individual feels their contribution doesn’t matter, and no one takes it seriously. Scarcity changes everything. With only three slots available, they become rare resources that everyone strives to capture. To compete for these three positions, everyone devises ways to boost their website traffic and content quality. The design of this mechanism operates on the same logic as a gaming leaderboard. The company announces rankings once a month. Whoever secures the highest website traffic wins the privilege to host the top banner for the following month. To drive traffic, employees engage in various activities: writing high-quality technical articles, delivering industry talks, participating in offline events, and managing communities. All these efforts center around one word: traffic. The ultimate byproduct of this traffic is increased brand exposure for the company, wider reach for recruitment ads, and broader awareness of the 600- PhD researcher initiative.
04 How Much is a Single Top Banner Worth?
A financial calculation reveals its massive value. If a company’s CTO achieves 100,000 monthly visits to their personal website, a single top banner gains 100,000 impressions. How much would it cost to purchase an advertising slot on Boss Zhipin for 100,000 impressions? A cheap one costs a few thousand yuan, while an expensive one runs into tens of thousands. Furthermore, exposure on Boss Zhipin is generic—mostly job seekers browsing aimlessly. It lacks the precision of a CTO’s website traffic. Most visitors to a CTO’s site are industry peers interested in technology, meaning the probability of finding a qualified large model researcher among them is significantly higher. Combined, the three banner positions generate approximately 300,000 targeted impressions per month. The advertising value of this exposure ranges from tens of thousands to over a hundred thousand yuan. Yet, the company doesn’t spend a single cent. Because employees crave the banner slot, they actively create content and generate traffic on their own. The company leverages employee-driven traffic for recruitment for free, while employees enhance their personal brand influence to win the honor of the banner. A true win-win scenario.
05 Your Personal Website is Your Ultimate Resume
The company’s HR Director made an insightful observation: “In the future, we won’t need to look at resumes anymore; your personal website will suffice. It contains your articles, your projects, your thoughts, and your achievements. Your AI Agent will manage everything for you. You don’t need to explain what you’ve done during an interview. Before the interviewer even meets you, their AI Agent has already read all the content on your website, allowing them to meet you with a comprehensive understanding. The efficiency of the interview process is multiplied exponentially.” He noted that this applies equally to job seekers. You no longer need to mass-apply with resumes. Simply perfect your KAI website and activate your AI Agent. The AI Agent will push your website to all hiring companies. The HR AI Agents of these corporations will automatically match your background with their requirements, auto-generating interview invitations for high-match candidates. You don’t need to spend hours tweaking a resume; your personal website works 24/7 to find you a job.
About Large Model Researcher Recruitment A certain AI company listed in Hong Kong is recruiting large model researchers globally. Candidates must hold a PhD. Research directions include NLP, CV, multimodality, and reinforcement learning. If you wish to join this 600-PhD team, you could choose to do nothing: skip building your KAI website, stick to the old ways, submit your resume, and wait for updates. Alternatively, you can take action: build your own KAI website, showcase your papers, your research focus, and your technical blogs. You won’t even need to submit a resume. Who do you think posted the three top banners for this company? Having read this far, you already know. Let your AI Agent read the websites of these three individuals, understand the company, and decide for yourself whether to reach out. Your KAI website is your interviewer.
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