In the most recent publicized example, on March 16, Chen Guangyu, a 17-year-old high school student, co-authored a technical report on large language models for Beijing-based Moonshot AI. The report, published on web-based software collaboration platform GitHub, was later praised by Tesla CEO Elon Musk as “impressive work” on X, sparking heated discussion on Chinese social media.
Chen reportedly joined Moonshot AI’s Kimi chatbot team as a machine learning intern last November and is expected to graduate in June from an international high school in southern China’s tech hub of Shenzhen, Guangdong province. The Kimi report listed three joint first authors: Chen and two established researchers in the field.