MACHINE AGE CARTOON

HE TAUGHT THE MACHINES TO LISTEN

By Zimbo · October 6, 2026

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AI cartoon by Zimbo: Six-panel Bowen Yu strip: 2017 Hunan Outstanding Graduate; 2019 buried in PhD papers; 2022 giant Alibaba Star medal; 2023 teaching robots PLEASE; 2025 robot reading a million-token scroll; lookout finale with Junyang Lin over a valley of assistant-robots.
Bowen Yu: Hunan star graduate, PhD from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Alibaba top-one-percent Star — then the Qwen team's post-training lead, turning raw models into instruction-following assistants. Now stretching to a million tokens of context. In six panels.Zimbo for AI News Page
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