So, today is my last day at Meta... After I finished my PHD, I moved from Oxford to New York to join FAIR and work on generative models for video. At the time, the SOTA could do little more than generate blurry GIFs. In the subsequent three years, our team went to complete my proudest research achievements so far, pushing the state of the art a few times with Emu Video and Movie Gen. For anyone interested, I summarized the amazing progression in the field and our work in a lecture at Stanford last year I worked with an amazing close team throughout in @imisra_, @_rohitgirdhar_, @mannat_singh, @quduval, Xi Yin, @smnh_azadi , @rssaketh , @arunmallya , @deviparikh , Ce Liu, all of whom are close friends now. I’m gonna be cheering the team on from outside. After pushing the frontier of video generation for a few years, its time for a change. I’m excited to announce that I will be joining the super talented team at @amilabs as a member of the technical staff with @sainingxie I’m so excited to join this talented team, to push the frontier of world models, and to do exciting new research. This is gonna be a fun ride.