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Meet Alexandr Wang, the 28-Year-Old Who Went from MIT Dropout to Billionaire Meta Hire: 'I Wanted to Make a Difference'
One of the terms of Meta's $14.3 billion investment in Wang's company, Scale AI, was that he joins Meta in a leadership role.
Self-made billionaire college dropout Alexandr Wang signs $14.3 billion deal to bolster Meta’s AI efforts: ‘There’s a huge premium to naivete’
Alexandr Wang, once the youngest self-made billionaire in the world, has agreed to join Meta to work on AI “superintelligence ...
Meta's 'Superintelligence' Lab Hire Alexandr Wang Says He'll Wait for Elon Musk's Neuralink Before Having Kids — Here's Why
Scale AI founder postpones parenthood until brain-computer interfaces are routine, citing neuroplastic potential. Meta's ...
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Scale AI's Wang Joins Meta, Brings Deep Industry Connections
Bloomberg's Ellen Huet discusses how Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang became so well connected within Silicon Valley, and ...
Meta is paying $14 billion to catch up in the AI race
As part of the deal, Wang will report directly to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the company announced on Thursday. He will lead a new AI lab inside Meta tasked with building “superi ...
Scale AI plans to promote strategy chief Droege to CEO as founder Wang heads for Meta
With Scale AI founder and CEO Alexandr Wang headed to Meta for high-profile role in artificial intelligence, the startup is ...