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Jul 5, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Tsinghua Special Award Winner Yuxian Gu Joins DeepSeek

Yuxian Gu, a 2021 Tsinghua PhD and 2025 Special Scholarship laureate, has joined DeepSeek, bringing expertise in pre‑training data selection, knowledge‑distillation for model compression, and efficient model architectures such as Jet‑Nemotron, which outperforms leading open‑source LLMs with up to 53.6× speedup on H100.