Before the meta-Aiké its investment of 14.3 billion dollars in the AI scale, its founder, Alexandr Wang, had already established a close relationship with the meta-PDG Mark Zuckerberg.
The two would have spent time together at Zuckerberg houses in Palo Alto and Lake Tahoe, discussing the future of artificial intelligence and the role scale could play it. This connection has now crystallized in an official partnership: Meta typed Wang, at only 28 years old, to direct her efforts from AI.
The appointment only occurred a few days after Meta’s major investment and shortly before the AI scale dismissed 14% of his workforce, 200 full-time employees. Wang is now able to influence the Directorate of AI development in one of the most powerful technological companies in the world.
Wang, an old dropout of the MIT, co-founded an AI of the scale in 2016. The company provides software and workforce to help label the large amounts of data necessary to form AI systems, such as large language models. After a brief drop in evaluation in 2023, the scale recently rebounded at nearly $ 14 billion, supported by new funds. Wang has about 14%.
Born in the New Mexico of Chinese immigrant physicists, Wang was a math prodigy who participated in coding competitions before leaving the MIT after a year. Its co -founder, Lucy Guo, left the company in 2018 but has retained an important participation, which ultimately makes it a billionaire.
Scale’s workforce includes more than 100,000 entrepreneurs who annotates data for customers like Meta, Openai and Microsoft. The company’s work model has aroused controversy, including several proceedings alleging operating conditions and mismanagement. Despite the counterou, Wang regularly expanded his influence – not only in Silicon Valley but in Washington, where he is considered a key voice shaping the regulatory landscape of AI.
Wang’s personal network played a crucial role in its increase. He is also close to Sam Altman from Openai, who directed Y Combinator when the scale went through the accelerator in 2016. Now, with the support of Zuckerberg and Meta’s resources, Wang is positioned to become one of the most influential figures of the next AI phase.