# Kimi hired a 16-year-old to work on cutting-edge AI models.

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**Published:** October 17, 2026
**Author:** Вайб-кодинг
**Source:** Telegram — Вайб-кодинг
**Language:** ru-RU
**HTML:** https://aiqazaqstan.com/en/articles/kimi-nanyala-16-letnego-podrostka-dlya-raboty-nad-peredovymi-modelyami-i

Kimi hired a 16-year-old to work on cutting-edge AI models. Less than a year later, he leaves the company, having managed to become one of the authors of a scientific article devoted to one of the key architectural solutions of its models. He is 17 years old. And he doesn't have a PhD. In many...

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