Archive · 3 Dec 2025
Meta Hires 28-Year-Old Alexandr Wang for AI Leadership
Meta, a big tech company, has hired a young and successful person named Alexandr Wang to lead its AI work.
Alexandr is only 28 years old and used to run a company called Scale AI, which helps other tech companies with their AI needs.
Meta paid a lot of money, about US$ 14.3 billion, to bring Alexandr and his team to lead a new part of Meta called Superintelligence Labs.
This new lab will work on making very smart AI systems.
Alexandr dropped out of a famous school called MIT to start his own company, and now he's leading a big team at Meta.
Meta wants to be a leader in AI, but it's also a big challenge to make sure the AI is safe and follows the rules.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appointed 28-year-old Alexandr Wang to lead Meta’s AI operations and Superintelligence Labs.
Meta invested US$ 14.3 billion in Scale AI, making it one of the largest AI acquisitions in recent history.
Alexandr Wang founded Scale AI in 2016 after dropping out of MIT, focusing on providing labeled data for machine-learning models.
Scale AI supplied data to major tech companies like NVIDIA, Amazon, and Meta, reaching a valuation of nearly US$ 14 billion by 2024.
Wang restructured Meta’s AI efforts into four focus areas to accelerate the development of general-purpose, superintelligent systems.
- Who
- Alexandr Wang, 28-year-old founder of Scale AI
- What
- Hired by Meta to lead AI operations and Superintelligence Labs
- When
- In 2025
- Where
- Meta, under CEO Mark Zuckerberg
- Why
- To accelerate development of general-purpose, superintelligent systems and gain expertise in data-annotation pipelines and scalable training systems
- Name
- Alexandr Wang
- Age
- 28
- Previous Company
- Scale AI
- Meta Investment
- US$ 14.3 billion
- New Role
- Head of Meta Superintelligence Labs
- Education
- MIT Dropout
- Birthplace
- New Mexico
- Parents
- Chinese immigrant physicists