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Alexis Conneau

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Researcher, Meta Superintelligence Labs at Meta

Conneau helped create XLM-R, which let language models transfer knowledge across 100 languages, and wav2vec 2.0, which learned speech from largely untranscribed audio. He later brought that work to expressive voice systems at OpenAI and WaveForms AI.

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Background

Current role
Researcher, Meta Superintelligence Labs 2025-present
Previously
2024-2025Co-founder and CEO,
2023-2024
2015-2023Research Scientist,
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 8, 2026