Alexandr Wang
Alexandr Wang is the Chief AI Officer at Meta, where he leads the Meta Superintelligence Labs division. He co-founded the data labeling and AI infrastructure company Scale AI in 2016 and served as its CEO, growing the company to a valuation of nearly $29 billion. Meta acquired a 49% non-voting stake in Scale AI for $14.3 billion in June 2025 as part of the arrangement bringing Wang to lead its AI operations. He is best known for building Scale AI into a central data provider for the generative AI ecosystem and for his current role overseeing Meta's superintelligence initiatives.
“Meta paid $14.3 billion for a 49% non-voting stake in Scale AI, which is the data labeling and AI infrastructure company that Wang co-founded and was running as CEO.”
Source→“Wang and his team built MuseSpark in just nine months, which is incredibly fast for a ground up rebuild of an entire AI technology stack, including new infrastructure and new data pipelines.”
Source→“Meta paid $14.3 billion for a 49% non-voting stake in Scale AI, which is the data labeling and AI infrastructure company that Wang co-founded and was running as CEO.”
Source→“The social media and technology conglomerate now betting $72 billion in annual CAPEX on AI, having restructured its entire AI effort under a new Superintelligence Labs division.”
Source→“I think the Alexander Wang hire might end up being one of the most consequential talent acquisitions in tech history. Right up there with when Apple brought back Steve Jobs or when Google acquired DeepMind and kept Demis Hassabis at the helm.”
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