Flow Matching co-creator Ricky Chen leaves Meta FAIR after nearly five years
RickyTQChen · x · 2026-09-03
Ricky TQ Chen announced his last week at Meta FAIR after nearly five years. Highlights of his tenure:
- Created the Flow Matching line of work with longtime collaborators, now a foundational recipe for generative modeling across image, audio, video, molecules, materials, text, and multimodal domains
- Saw these ideas scale across Meta and frontier models broadly
- Recently a core member of the TBD team training Muse Image and Muse Video from scratch, learning the messy practical plumbing firsthand
He thanked his collaborators and teased a new adventure without naming his next destination.
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