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On October 21, 2026, 17-year-old AI researcher Chen Guangyu joined the Discovery Loop team founded by Jeff Dean and others. Previously, on October 15, he announced his departure from Moonshot AI; during his time at Moonshot AI, he participated in work including Attention Residuals, the underlying technology of Kimi K3, and KDA compute kernel acceleration. Reports say Discovery Loop was co-founded by Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le and Oriol Vinyals, with the goal of building an AI research automation system that automatically proposes hypotheses, designs and runs experiments, and the company is seeking a new funding round at a valuation of about $50 billion. Other reports mention that Chen Guangyu had denied rumors of joining Anthropic and had plans to return to Carnegie Mellon to study.
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Oct 23
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Unitree releases humanoid robot H2-X: can lift a car bare-handed, land from 4 meters high, battery life about 8 hours
Unitree Technology releases its new humanoid robot "H2-X Kung Fu Legend Guardian". Official video shows its maximum battery life is about 8 hours; it can lift the front of a car bare-handed, jump down from a 4-meter-high platform and roll to a stable stance, and kick a car door dented. The video also demonstrates scenes of pushing away a car about to hit a person and protecting its owner. Media infer that it targets fields such as emergency rescue and security protection.
Oct 22
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17-Year-Old Researcher Chen Guangyu Leaves Moonshot AI, Rumored Destination Points to Discovery Loop
According to Alphabet List under TMTPost, 17-year-old researcher Chen Guangyu announced in a post on October 15 that he was leaving Moonshot AI. He had previously joined as a 16-year-old intern and took part in the underlying technologies of Kimi K3, Attention Residuals and KDA compute kernel acceleration. He denied rumors that he had joined Anthropic. An anonymous account, Arfur Grok, said he had joined Discovery Loop, founded by Jeff Dean and three other former Google researchers. The company has not yet released a product and is seeking a valuation of about $50 billion; he also plans to return to Carnegie Mellon to study, and he previously interned at Tilde Research for seven weeks.
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The whole internet is calling for Chen Guangyu: the 17-year-old has left Moonshot AI, and his destination is a mystery
On October 15, 17-year-old Chen Guangyu announced his departure from Moonshot AI. He was subsequently rumored to have joined Anthropic, but he himself denied it with "No." Another rumor says he joined Discovery Loop, founded by Jeff Dean and others. During his time at Moonshot AI, he participated in the underlying technology Attention Residuals and KDA compute kernel acceleration for Kimi K3. K3 has 2.8 trillion total parameters and scored 57 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, ranking third.
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