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Denny Zhou
Google DeepMind; reasoning team lead
Google DeepMind senior staff researcher; leads the reasoning team. Co-author of the foundational Chain-of-Thought prompting paper.
current Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
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Accelerationendorsestentative
Build faster; delay costs more than capabilityArgues reasoning, via chain-of-thought, self-consistency, and tree-of-thought, is the next major capability surface beyond raw scale; leads DeepMind work on this.
Reasoning is one of the most important capabilities of LLMs. Chain-of-thought is the simplest demonstration that scale plus reasoning prompts unlocks much more than either alone.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.