Gabriel Synnaeve
Research scientist at Meta; last author of Code Llama and co-author of Wav2Letter, EnCodec, and MusicGen
- Research scientist (joined FAIR as a postdoctoral researcher in 2015; listed with Meta Superintelligence Labs on a 2026 paper), Meta (FAIR; Meta Superintelligence Labs)11323
Gabriel Synnaeve is a research scientist at Meta. Meta's AI people page places Synnaeve on the FAIR team, which Synnaeve joined as a postdoctoral researcher in 2015, and an October 2026 paper lists Synnaeve with Meta Superintelligence Labs. Synnaeve's CV describes FAIR work on end-to-end speech recognition and a StarCraft AI research project, and later work as a research scientist manager on speech and audio and audio compression, alongside individual research on code generation. Synnaeve is the last author of the Code Llama paper, which says the models are released under a permissive license for research and commercial use, and co-authored Wav2Letter with Ronan Collobert as well as the EnCodec and MusicGen audio papers.113245910
Work
Code Llama (external site: arxiv.org)Open weights
Last author of Code Llama: Open Foundation Models for Code (2023), a family of code models based on Llama 2 in 7B, 13B, 34B, and 70B sizes; the abstract says Code Llama is released under a permissive license that allows research and commercial use.4
Wav2Letter and Flashlight (external site: github.com)Open-source code
Co-author with Ronan Collobert and Christian Puhrsch of the Wav2Letter paper (2016) and a co-author of the Flashlight paper (2022). The wav2letter repository states that wav2letter++ is MIT-licensed, and the Flashlight repository is published under the MIT license.5678
EnCodec and MusicGen (external site: github.com)Open-source code
Co-author of the EnCodec paper (2022) and a core-team author of the MusicGen paper (2023); both models are part of the AudioCraft repository, which releases its code under the MIT license and its model weights under CC-BY-NC 4.0.9101112
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