Wildest AI Internship Ever This might be the craziest AI story I’ve ever heard. Meet Keyu Tian, an intern at ByteDance (the company behind TikTok), who hacked his way into GPU access to produce groundbreaking AI research. Back in mid-2024, Tian joined ByteDance, but things went downhill fast. Training pipelines started failing, models mysteriously crashed, and tiny edits sabotaged workflows. All this chaos freed up GPUs, which Tian secretly used for his own research. ByteDance eventually caught on, fired him in August 2024, and even reported him to his university. But Tian didn’t stop there. In October, he submitted his paper, Visual Autoregressive Modeling: Scalable Image Generation via Next Scale Prediction, to NeurIPS—the world’s most prestigious AI conference. And guess what? It won Best Paper in December 2024. Here’s why the paper is a big deal: it pushes the boundaries of image generation, going beyond token or pixel predictions to predict larger image scales, making the process faster and more efficient. The award sparked controversy because Tian used stolen GPU time to do the work. Meanwhile, ByteDance is suing him for $1.1 million in damages. Where do I stand? Tian is undeniably brilliant but also reckless. If he doesn’t get hired and managed properly, someone will still benefit from his ingenuity. This story is far from over, but it’s already a wild ride—part genius, part chaos, and 100% unforgettable. #product #productmanager #productmanagement #startup #business #openai #llm #ai #microsoft #google #gemini #anthropic #claude #llama #meta #nvidia #career #careeradvice #mentor #mentorship #mentortiktok #mentortok #careertok #job #jobadvice #future #2024 #story #news #dev #coding #code #engineering #engineer #coder #sales #cs #marketing #agent #work #workflow #smart #thinking #strategy #cool #real #jobtips #hack #hacks #tip #tips #tech #techtok #techtiktok #openaidevday #aiupdates #techtrends #voiceAI #developerlife #cursor #replit #pythagora #bolt #bytedance #intern #crazy #real #story #wild #true #strangertruth #weird #future #2025 - @nate.b.jones