Kimi researcher Nathan leaves Moonshot after year of KDA, Attention Residuals work

soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-10-15

Nathan (@nathancgy4) has announced his departure from Kimi (Moonshot AI), calling the past year there the best of his life. He highlights optimizing KDA kernels, co-inventing Attention Residuals, optimizer research that taught him the most about training dynamics, and crafting the K3 release cases.

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