Dealroom.co | Jiahui Yu leaves Meta to start new company
What's the deal? On 13 August 2026, Jiahui Yu announced that he is leaving Meta to start a new company. He said he is building the TBD Lab alongside Mark Zuckerberg and Alexandr Wang.Background: Yu described his work at Meta as part of a multimodal team that developed Muse Spark, Voice Mode, Muse Image and Muse Video. He thanked the team behind those projects and said that, over time, he had become increasingly drawn to a problem he believes will matter deeply to humanity's future but remains largely underexplored. He added that the new problem now has his full attention and that he will share more as the work takes shape. No funding details were disclosed in his announcement.Read more: Jiahui Yu on X
