Barry (Xuanyi) Dong

Researcher at @OpenAI | ex: Founding Researcher @augmentcode, Researcher @GoogleDeepMind, 3x🏅 at ACM ICPC

[Barry (Xuanyi) Dong @BarryDong8]

Congrats on the launch, excited to try Sound Effects 1.0!

[Sonilo @Sonilo_music]

Meet the first Sound World Model from Sonilo.

Generated video can look incredible, but without the right sound, it still feels distant.

Sonilo takes a video and creates the music and sound effects it needs, timed to the scene, motion, mood, and environment.

And in head-to-head benchmarks, Sonilo outperforms leading models across both music and sound effects.

With Sound Effects 1.0, we’re bringing music and sound effects together into one sound layer for videos.

Music carries emotion.
Sound effects create presence.

Together, they make worlds feel real, immersive, and alive!

Sound Effects 1.0 is live.

#SoundWorldModel #Sonilo #AIAudio

[Barry (Xuanyi) Dong @BarryDong8]

@eliza_luth Not sure society is ready for AI’s trajectory yet.
Jobs are first augmented, then absorbed.
If labor stops anchoring value, what happens to the social contract built on top of it? 🙃🫠

[Barry (Xuanyi) Dong @BarryDong8]

@elonmuskTN 8

[Barry (Xuanyi) Dong @BarryDong8]

@sama And projecting to how awesome it will be in 2026 and 2027, probably it will be the only app people need🧐

[Barry (Xuanyi) Dong @BarryDong8]

@lmarena_ai Browsed 10 battle results, win = len(LLAMA-4) >> len(others)🤣

[Barry (Xuanyi) Dong @BarryDong8]

@eliza_luth LLM can crash all the in-domain eval, OOD eval is the key.

[Barry (Xuanyi) Dong @BarryDong8]

@ns123abc @finkd 👀

[Barry (Xuanyi) Dong @BarryDong8]

@eliza_luth Pretty Cool Demo 😆

[Barry (Xuanyi) Dong @BarryDong8]

@lennysan @kevinweil @8enmann @mntruell @_mohansolo @rauchg @EricSimons @antonosika U missed @scott_dietzen CEO of Augment

[Barry (Xuanyi) Dong @BarryDong8]

@hyhieu226 Plus a good organizational structure and culture

[Barry (Xuanyi) Dong @BarryDong8]

@hyhieu226 @augmentcode can you help this workflow😁

[Barry (Xuanyi) Dong @BarryDong8]

@ZeyuanAllenZhu @AIatMeta @mbzuai Interesting series of work, where is Part 2?

[Barry (Xuanyi) Dong @BarryDong8]

@FrankRHutter I would like to nominate myself as a reviewer 😄

[Barry (Xuanyi) Dong @BarryDong8]

@ArxivDaily Good idea. How did you rank the papers?