Kimi K3 pretraining researcher Nathan Chen joins Jeff Dean's startup Discovery Loop
ivan_bezdomny · x · 2026-10-21
Nathan Chen (@nathancgy4), an ML researcher at Moonshot AI working on LLM scaling and pretraining (Kimi K3), has joined Discovery Loop — the AI startup founded by Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le. His profile highlights work on model architectures, optimizers, and hardware-aligned kernels, plus a joke about learning from Gemini that 'didn't age well.' Discovery Loop is a PBC aiming to automate scientific experimentation loops with frontier AI.
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