18-year-old Moonshot prodigy Nathan Chen leaves Kimi for the Bay Area
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-15
18-year-old high schooler Nathan Chen (Chen Guangyu) — praised by Musk for his papers and co-first author of 'Attention Residuals' just two years after starting ML — has ended his internship at Moonshot AI's Kimi and is heading to the Bay Area, with OpenAI's Sholto Douglas recruiting him. teortaxesTex quips: Yang Zhilin returning from the US to found Moonshot sparked 'it's over' takes; will talent flowing the other way spark 'we're so back'?
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