In China’s artificial intelligence (AI) industry, members of the post-1990s generation are driving a..
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Publish Date: 2026-04-27 05:00:00
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사진 확대 In China’s artificial intelligence (AI) industry, members of the post-1990s generation are driving a new wave of change. Brilliant engineers are shaping the future of China’s AI sector, whether by leading AI divisions at the country’s major tech firms or founding AI and robotics startups in pursuit of the next DeepSeek.
In China’s artificial intelligence (AI) industry, members of the post-1990s generation are driving a new wave of change. Brilliant engineers are shaping the future of China’s AI sector, whether by leading AI divisions at the country’s major tech firms or founding AI and robotics startups in pursuit of the next DeepSeek.
Most of them are talented people who graduated from top universities at home and abroad and later returned to China after gaining experience in Silicon Valley and elsewhere in the United States. More recently, however, the number of homegrown talents has also been rising. As the global AI industry advances, attention is increasingly focused on their role as key players in the technology rivalry between China and the United States.
According to local Chinese media on the 27th, Dr. Guo Daya, widely known as an early member of the Chinese generative AI company DeepSeek, has recently joined ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok. He now oversees the AI agent division within Seed, ByteDance’s research group for next-generation AI models.
Born in 1994, Guo is from Zhuhai in Guangdong Province and studied data science at Sun Yat-sen University. He later entered a doctoral program at the same university through a talent development program run by Microsoft Research Asia and earned his Ph.D. in 2023. That same year, he joined DeepSeek and led research in code and reasoning.
When rumors spread earlier this year that he would leave DeepSeek, several major tech companies, including Alibaba Group, competed to recruit him. After he decided to join ByteDance, reports even…
