Yin Xi announces departure from OpenAI

Nov 4

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   One of Harvard's youngest Chinese full professors, Xi Yin, leaves OpenAI after only 5 months

   Xi Yin, once one of the youngest Chinese full professors in Harvard University's history, announced on social platform X that he is leaving OpenAI, saying he will end this journey early and explore new directions. News of his joining OpenAI emerged at the end of May this year; during his tenure, under the identity "Harvard University/OpenAI," he presented at Kyoto University on AI-assisted research in string theory and quantum field theory, including a new method for numerical computation of higher-genus string amplitudes and a compressed approximation of the ground-state wavefunction of BFSS matrix theory. He has not yet announced his next career plans.

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3. 14:35

   Phoenix Technology

   One of Harvard's youngest Chinese full professors, Yin Xi, leaves OpenAI after only 5 months

   Yin Xi, once one of the youngest Chinese full professors in Harvard University's history, has announced his departure from OpenAI, ending this first corporate job of his after only about 5 months. During his tenure, he continued research at the intersection of AI and theoretical physics under the affiliation "Harvard University/OpenAI," involving numerical computation of higher-genus string amplitudes and approximation of the ground-state wavefunction in BFSS matrix theory. His next destination has not yet been announced.

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4. 08:33

   Phoenix Technology

   Harvard's youngest Chinese full professor Xi Yin leaves OpenAI after only 5 months

   Xi Yin, a string theorist and the youngest Chinese full professor in Harvard's history, has announced his departure from OpenAI. From reports of his joining in late May this year to his departure, roughly half a year passed. He said this was his first corporate job and that he will explore new directions. Yin entered the University of Science and Technology of China's youth class at age 12, was promoted to full professor at Harvard at age 31 in 2015, and has received the Sloan Research Fellowship and the 2017 New Horizons in Physics Prize; he previously estimated that, with extensive human supervision, AI sped up his research coding work by at least 100 times.

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