Harvard's Youngest Chinese Professor Xi Yin Announces Departure from OpenAI

PANews, November 3 - Xi Yin, the youngest Chinese full professor in Harvard's history and a physics professor at Harvard, announced on X that the day of his post was his last day at OpenAI. He will pivot to a new direction after leaving, without disclosing specific plans. Yin thanked Alex Lupsasca, Boris Alexeev, and Dan Roberts in his post.

At the end of May this year, reports emerged that Yin had left academia to join OpenAI. Yin researches string theory and quantum gravity. He was admitted to the University of Science and Technology of China's gifted youth class in 1996 and became a full professor in Harvard's physics department in 2015 at age 31. He received the 2017 Breakthrough Prize's "New Horizons in Physics Prize."