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Oct 9, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

CMU PhD Zhengyang Geng Joins OpenAI After One-Step Generation Breakthrough

CMU PhD student Zhengyang Geng announced he has joined OpenAI; his research includes MeanFlow (one-step image generation achieving FID 3.43 on ImageNet 256×256, NeurIPS 2025 Oral), Improved MeanFlow (FID 1.72, CVPR 2026 Highlight), and Equilibrium Reasoners (latent-space iterative reasoning boosting Sudoku-Extreme accuracy from 2.6% to 99%+, ICML 2026).