Nikkei series profiles Google AI veteran behind WaveNet — once dismissed as "absolutely impossible"
heiga_zen · x · 2026-10-02
Nikkei's "Working Professionals' Secret Records" series just wrapped a multi-day profile of Jeon Byung-ha, the veteran engineer supporting Google's AI division. It traces his path from technical college and Cambridge to Google DeepMind, including winning a speech synthesis competition, pushing WaveNet past internal claims of "absolutely impossible," and the Tokyo team's early struggles with scale and time zones.
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