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Kimi Genius youth Chen Guangyu resigns: 16 joined at age, participated in K3 underlying R&D; Musk liked it

Beating AI news, 17-year-old AI researcher Chen Guangyu (Nathan Chen) announced that he recently left the Moonshot AI Kimi team. He joined in 2025 November at the age of only 16, and served for less than 1 years. Chen Guangyu said that the past 1 years were the best experience of his life so far, but did not disclose his reason for leaving or his next destination.

Chen Guangyu previously drew attention for Kimi's Attention Residuals(Attention Residuals) paper. This research, which received public praise from Musk, listed him, Zhang Yu, and Su Jianlin as co-first authors. Su Jianlin initially proposed replacing traditional residual connections with an attention mechanism and validated the preliminary results. Chen Guangyu and Zhang Yu subsequently joined the research and jointly proposed the more memory- and communication-efficient Block AttnRes, enabling this architecture to be used for large-scale model training; it was later adopted by Kimi K3.

In his resignation post, Chen Guangyu also reviewed other work. He optimized the Kimi Delta Attention of GPU computational kernels with Zhang Yu, researched model-training optimizers, and participated in producing showcase examples for the release of K3. He thanked the team for giving him an opportunity when he was only 16 years old, and said he wanted to continue exploring more directions.

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