Who is Alexandr Wang, and why is Meta betting billions on his startup Scale AI?

Who is Alexandr Wang, and why is Meta betting billions on his startup Scale AI?

Alexandr Wang is the CEO and co-founder of Scale AI, a data-labelling startup that helps other companies train and deploy frontier AI models. Over the years, Wang has built his startup into the backbone of the AI boom, quietly enabling everything from autonomous vehicles to large language models (LLMs). Now, Wang finds himself at the […]

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Meta is creating a new AI lab to pursue ‘superintelligence’

Meta is creating a new AI lab to pursue ‘superintelligence’

Meta is preparing to unveil a new artificial intelligence research lab dedicated to pursuing “superintelligence,” a hypothetical AI system that exceeds the powers of the human brain, as the tech giant jockeys to stay competitive in the technology race, according to four people with knowledge of the company’s plans. Meta has tapped Alexandr Wang, 28, […]

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