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A BILLION DOWNLOADS. THEN HE WALKED.

By Zimbo · October 6, 2026

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AI cartoon by Zimbo: Sunday strip: Junyang Lin, A BILLION DOWNLOADS. THEN HE WALKED. — 2019 Peking grad enters DAMO; Apr 2023 Qwen gets its own team; Sept 2023 open Qwen report; 2024 robot lineup 0.5B to 72B; Jan 2025 million-token scroll; Mar 2026 Lin exits with a 1 BILLION DOWNLOADS box, counter at 1,000,000,000.
Junyang Lin went from Peking University straight to Alibaba's DAMO Academy, became a technical leader behind the Qwen open-model family — a billion downloads across hundreds of open releases — and resigned in March 2026. The man who built the models the whole world downloaded, in six panels.Zimbo for AI News Page
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