Meta is reportedly investing nearly $15 billion in the data-labeling firm Scale AI and taking a 49% stake in the startup, while also bringing on CEO Alexandr Wang to help lead a new ...

Alexandr Wang, co-founder of Scale AI, has parlayed his networking skills into a $14.3 billion investment from Meta and a new job in Meta's "superintelligence" group, reporting to CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

In 2022, Wang became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire at just 25 years old after Scale AI raised a $325 million funding round that valued the company at $7.3 billion.

Wang will remain involved with Scale AI as a board member and is expected to bring several employees with him to Meta. He has led the company since co-founding it in 2016 to supply high-quality ...

On June 12, Alexandr Wang stepped down as Scale’s CEO to chase his most ambitious moonshot yet: building smarter-than-human AI as head of Meta’s new “superintelligence” division.

Scale's CEO, Alexandr Wang, will also become a top-level Meta executive, the startup confirmed. In January, the 28-year-old wrote a letter to Trump outlining how the US needs to invest in AI.

Alexandr Wang, the world’s youngest self-made billionaire and CEO of the $14 billion company Scale AI, is unnerved by Chinese advancements in AI — and what it could mean for the security of A… ...

Scale AI’s ad and Wang’s letter appear to be a public effort at influencing AI policy and the Trump administration’s role in ensuring U.S. dominance in the field.

Scale CEO Alexandr Wang, who recently joined Meta, is not planning to have kids anytime soon. On the Shawn Ryan Show, he said he's waiting until brain-computer interfaces are further along.

We’re excited to announce that Wang, who started Scale AI as a student at MIT at the age of 19, is coming to Disrupt 2024 on October 28-30 in San Francisco.

Scale, whose core business is data labeling and processing for AI projects at large organizations, was valued at $13.8 billion last year. Wang wants the U.S. government to emulate tech giants by ...