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HE TAUGHT THE MACHINES TO THINK. THEN HE QUIT.

By Zimbo · October 6, 2026

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Daya Guo joined tiny DeepSeek in 2023, became lead author of DeepSeek-Coder and first author of the peer-reviewed R1 reasoning paper — then, three years in, walked out the door. The man who taught the machines to reason, in six panels.Zimbo for AI News Page
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