Hello, I'm Alex Chen. I'm interested in deep learning, Asia-Pacific foreign policy, and reading good books. You can find me on X at @chenchen and here's my GitHub.

About Me

2025: Post-training Grok 3, 4, 4 Fast, & 4.1 at xAI. Also made @gork.

2024: Undergrad-ing at UPenn under the M&T program.

2025

December

• 📖 Pantsov, Mao: The Real Story
  

  (9/10) My ECCI handler said Stalin thought it was pretty good.

• 📖 qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
  

  (8/10) Did I read this book? I can't seem to remember.

• 🎙️ Dwarkesh Podcast
  

  (8.5/10) best podcast fr
  Sarah Paine — How Mao conquered China
  Ilya Sutskever — Age of research
  Victor Shih — Xi Jinping AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo

Yo this website was founded on Dec 31, 2025. It's been since then.