Meta Video Generation Core Backbone Resigns to Join Yang Likun's $1.03 Billion World Model Company AMI Labs According to Beating monitoring, Meta FAIR video generation researcher Andrew Brown announced his resignation and his next stop is AMI Labs. He will join this AI startup co founded by former Meta Chief AI Scientist and Turing Award winner Yang Likun as a member of the technical team, and work with co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer Xie Saining. Andrew Brown's three years at Meta mainly focused on video generation. According to the official paper page of Meta, he is one of the authors of Emu Video; The Movie Gen technology report also listed it as a core contributor. These two tasks correspond to Meta's complete set of media generation models, including text generated videos, 1080p high-definition videos, video editing, personalized videos, and synchronized audio generation. AMI Labs' bet is on world models, which enable AI to learn physics, motion, and causal laws from real-world data. The company will complete a seed round financing of 1.03 billion US dollars in March 2026, with a pre investment valuation of 3.5 billion US dollars. Andrew Brown also set his new direction as "advancing the forefront of world models" in his resignation letter. From Emu Video, Movie Gen to AMI Labs, this departure indicates that video generation researchers are moving towards a more fundamental world model track. The world model has shifted from an academic route to an entrepreneurial direction that can attract top researchers and billions of dollars in funding. [Original link]