# Chen Guangyu, 17, leaves Moonshot AI's Kimi team for the San Francisco Bay Area

Chen worked on Kimi Delta Attention and the attention-residuals work used in Kimi K3, and he says he is not joining Anthropic despite a public job offer from one of its researchers.

- Published: 2026-10-20T06:12:48.347Z
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Chen Guangyu, a researcher from Shenzhen born in 2009, announced on X on October 15 that he has left Moonshot AI, the Chinese lab behind Kimi. He described his year there as "the most beautiful time of my life," SBS reported. He joined Kimi…

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