Kimi researcher Nathan leaves Moonshot after a year of KDA and Attention Residuals work
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-15
- Nathan (@nathancgy4) announced he has left Kimi/Moonshot, calling the past year the best of his life.
- Highlights he cites: optimizing KDA kernels with Yang Zhang, co-inventing and refining Attention Residuals (with Yang Zhang and Jianlin Su), deep work on optimizers that taught him the most about training dynamics, and building demo cases for the K3 release during the World Cup.
- Commentator teortaxesTex notes Nathan's contributions to Kimi rival anyone's at any AGI lab and is curious about his next move.
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