17-Year-Old Ex-Kimi Researcher Chen Guangyu Joins Jeff Dean's DiscoveryLoop
机器之心 · wechat · 2026-10-21
17-year-old AI researcher Chen Guangyu, who joined Moonshot AI's Kimi team at 16 while still in high school, has left to join DiscoveryLoop, the AI-for-science startup founded in August by four former Google leaders: Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals. The company is reportedly raising a new round at a $50B valuation.
- At Kimi he optimized Kimi Delta Attention kernels and co-first-authored the Attention Residuals paper (March), which became a core architecture technique in the 2.8T-parameter Kimi K3
- After his departure announcement, Anthropic's RL scaling lead Sholto Douglas invited him to San Francisco, sparking Anthropic speculation that Chen denied
- DiscoveryLoop aims to build automated systems where AI proposes hypotheses, runs experiments, and iterates — starting with ML research automation
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