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AI, Alexandr Wang and Meta

5 things to know about Alexandr Wang, the buzzy Scale AI founder

Mark Zuckerberg's biggest bet on Meta AI will ride on the back of a fellow dropout who has dazzled Silicon Valley over the last decade.

Bloomberg on MSN · 3h

Scale AI’s Wang Brings to Meta Knowledge of What Everyone Else is Doing

Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang is such an enthusiastic networker that his former roommate — OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman — once jokingly told him to tone it down a bit.

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Why Meta is Betting Nearly $15 Billion on Alexandr Wang

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has tried to fix a seemingly existential problem in recent months. His company’s large language model, Llama, was falling behind competitors and struggling to perform as well as models from OpenAI,

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A frustrated Zuckerberg makes his biggest AI bet as Meta nears $14 billion stake in Scale AI, hires founder Wang

Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg is bringing in Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang to help the social media company better execute on its AI ...

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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 ...

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Google, Microsoft, Elon Musk's xAI Reportedly Cut Ties With Scale AI After Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Buys Stake

Google is reportedly cutting ties with Scale AI after Meta acquired a 49% stake in the data-labeling startup, according to Benzinga. Google was previously Scale AI’s largest customer, and it is ...

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Mark Zuckerberg-led Meta bets big on Scale AI: Who is Alexander Wang, the 28-year-old MIT dropout behind the startup?

In a strategic move, Meta invests $14.3 billion in Scale AI, taking a 49 per cent stake in the data-labelling startup.

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Is Meta really spending $15 billion to hire a 28-year-old?

In theory, that's because Mark Zuckerberg wants to secure Scale AI's data services. But this looks like an acquihire. Is Zuckerberg paying all that money just to hire cofounder Alexandr Wang ...

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Mark Zuckerberg has an AI talent problem—but money alone is unlikely to solve it

Zuckerberg is throwing pro-athlete-level salaries at top AI researchers. But for many, prestige, trust, and tribal loyalties ...

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Mark Zuckerberg’s superintelligence gamble: Can billions and bold hires save Meta’s AI ambitions?

Meta is betting big on a new superintelligence lab, luring talent with massive paychecks and bringing in Scale AI’s Alexandr ...

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