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Alexandr Wang
Alexandr Wang founded the data-labelling company Scale AI as a teenager after dropping out of MIT, building it into a key supplier of the human-annotated training data that frontier labs relied on. In June 2025 Meta paid $14.3 billion for a non-voting stake in Scale and hired Wang, then 28, as its first chief AI officer, and days later he was named to lead the new Meta Superintelligence Labs. His arrival reshaped Meta's AI effort around imported leadership, though the division saw job cuts and delayed model launches over the following year. He is among the youngest people to hold a role of this seniority at a major technology company.
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Meta launches Muse Spark, its first closed frontier model
Led by former Scale AI chief Alexandr Wang, the model is proprietary and API-only, reversing the open-weight approach Meta had used for the Llama family.
Models & capabilities · Open weights & ecosystem · Labs & people
Meta cuts about 600 jobs in AI division as focus shifts to Superintelligence Labs
Chief AI officer Alexandr Wang said fewer staff would speed decisions; the cuts spared the small TBD Lab team building Meta's next frontier models.
Labs & people
Zuckerberg announces Meta Superintelligence Labs
In an internal memo, Zuckerberg called Wang 'the most impressive founder of his generation' and named eleven newly hired researchers poached from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic.
Labs & people
Meta pays $14.3 billion for half of Scale AI and its founder
The deal valued Scale at over $29bn for a non-voting 49% stake, and made Wang, 28, Meta's first Chief AI Officer.
Money & business · Labs & people
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