18-year-old Kimi intern Nathan Chen leaves Moonshot AI for the Bay Area after praised Attention Residuals paper
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-15
- 18-year-old high schooler Nathan Chen (Chen Guangyu) has ended his internship at Moonshot AI's Kimi and is heading to the Bay Area; Sholto Douglas publicly invited him to work with prime/base10 in SF.
- He started machine learning in 2024 and within two years went from "just figuring out Transformer" to co-first author on the Attention Residuals paper, which drew praise from Musk.
- teortaxesTex notes the irony: Moonshot's founding drew "it's over" takes; now a core young researcher is moving the other way.
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