Tian Keyu, first author of NeurIPS 2024’s Best Paper, has recently gone off to start a company. The focus is world models—the same kind Li Fei-Fei is working on. The company doesn’t yet have an official name or product, but it has already raised $30 million at a post-money valuation of nearly $200 million 💰📈
Another claim to fame: he was the “ByteDance intern who poisoned the well,” whose case once rocked China’s AI community. During his product internship at ByteDance, he allegedly tampered with code and disrupted other people’s model-training jobs to grab GPU computing resources. Afterward, ByteDance sought more than 8 million yuan in damages. The court of first instance ordered Tian Keyu to pay 500,000 yuan. He accepted the ruling, but ByteDance appealed. The two sides are still locked in a legal battle. #字节跳动 #田柯宇
Another claim to fame: he was the “ByteDance intern who poisoned the well,” whose case once rocked China’s AI community. During his product internship at ByteDance, he allegedly tampered with code and disrupted other people’s model-training jobs to grab GPU computing resources. Afterward, ByteDance sought more than 8 million yuan in damages. The court of first instance ordered Tian Keyu to pay 500,000 yuan. He accepted the ruling, but ByteDance appealed. The two sides are still locked in a legal battle. #字节跳动 #田柯宇