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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 ...
Meta invests $14.3B in AI firm Scale and recruits its CEO for ‘superintelligence’ team
Meta is making a $14.3 billion investment in artificial intelligence company Scale and recruiting its CEO Alexandr Wang to ...
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Meta’s $15 Billion Bet on Scale AI Signals a New Era of Talent Wars and Data Dominance in AI
Data is the battleground, and Scale’s pipelines may just be the most valuable trenches.” This comment in a recent industry report captures the thinking behind Meta’s splashy $15 billion buyout of ...
Report: Meta taps Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang to join new ‘superintelligence’ lab
Mark Zuckerberg is hand-picking top researchers and engineers to join an upcoming AI research lab dedicated to ...
Is Meta really spending $15 billion to hire a 28-year-old?
Wang is the CEO of Scale AI, a data company that works with giant AI leaders like Meta and OpenAI. And Meta just spent about ...
Meta is paying $14 billion to catch up in the AI race
As part of the deal, Wang will report directly to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the company announced on Thursday. He will lead a new AI lab inside Meta tasked with building “superi ...
Scale AI plans to promote strategy chief Droege to CEO as founder Wang heads for Meta
With Scale AI founder and CEO Alexandr Wang headed to Meta for high-profile role in artificial intelligence, the startup is ...
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 ...