A high-signal researcher for understanding how DeepMind approaches generality, especially in areas where reinforcement learning, multimodality, and large-scale systems meet.
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Editor reviewedYuhuai (Tony) Wu
Reasoning, planning, math
Research scientist at Google
A strong researcher to follow if you care about reasoning-heavy language models, especially the line connecting chain-of-thought style methods, evaluation frameworks, and more agentic prompting patterns.
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March 18, 2026
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Reasoning and acting in language models
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Evaluation infrastructure around language models
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Reasoning bootstrapping methods such as STaR
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Reasoning, planning, math
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ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models
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xAI
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