Harvard's youngest Chinese professor Xi Yin announces departure from OpenAI

Nov. 3: Xi Yin, the youngest Chinese full professor in Harvard's history and a professor of physics at Harvard, said in a post on X that the day of the post was his last day at OpenAI, and that he will move on to a new direction after leaving, without disclosing where he is headed. In the post, Yin thanked Alex Lupsasca, Boris Alexeev and Dan Roberts.

At the end of May this year, reports said Yin had left academia to join OpenAI. Yin studies string theory and quantum gravity. He was admitted to the Special Class for the Gifted Young at the University of Science and Technology of China in 1996, and in 2015, at the age of 31, was promoted to full professor in Harvard's Department of Physics. He has received the 2017 Breakthrough Prize "New Horizons in Physics" award.