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Observations have emerged that Chen Guangyu, a 17-year-old prodigy who left the Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI, has joined a US AI startup.
According to foreign media including the South China Morning Post today (the 21st), "Upper Grok," a social media account that tracks the migration trends of US AI talent, reported that Chen Guangyu has joined the US AI company "Discovery Loop."
However, Chen himself has not directly disclosed his next workplace, and Discovery Loop stated that it does not comment on personal matters.
Discovery Loop was founded last August by four individuals, including former Google researcher Jeff Dean, and pursues the automation of scientific research utilizing AI.
Founder Dean explained that the company's work is similar to efforts to achieve "recursive self-improvement" of AI, and although it has not yet launched a product, it is reportedly pushing for fundraising with a target valuation of 50 billion dollars, or approximately 66 trillion won.
Previously, Chen announced his departure from Moonshot AI via social media, stating, "Thank you for believing in me and hiring me when I was 16," and added, "I will be heading to the Bay Area in California, US," which sparked rumors of a move to Anthropic, though he directly denied this.
Chen has worked as a machine learning researcher on Moonshot's Kimi team since November of last year, deeply engaging in the research and development of core model architecture.
Last July, Moonshot unveiled "Kimi K3," an open-weight AI model with 2.8 trillion parameters, claiming it showed performance close to top-tier US models.
(Photo: Capture from the Moonshot AI website)
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