17-Year-Old Kimi Architecture Prodigy Nathan Chen Leaves Moonshot AI — Bound for Anthropic Amid US-China Talent War
Nathan Chen, the 17-year-old co-first author of the Attention Residuals paper behind Kimi K3’s 2.8-trillion-parameter architecture, has left Moonshot AI — with multiple reports pointing to Anthropic’s Scaling RL team in Silicon Valley as his next stop. Twice praised publicly by Elon Musk, the high-school graduate became the newest flashpoint in the US-China AI talent war, three months after the White House accused Moonshot of stealing Anthropic’s technology. A look at his hackathon origins, his architectural breakthrough, and what his move says about collapsing credential barriers in AI hiring.
