Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang joins Meta for AI research: Who is he and why is Zuckerberg investing on his $29 billion startup

Facebook owner Meta has invested in Scale AI in a deal that values the labelling startup of worth more than $29 billion. The CEO and co-founder of Scale AI is a 28-year-old Alexandr Wang who has emerged as one of the most influential figures in the artificial intelligence landscape. Scale AI initially was a data-labeling company and quickly became an underlying face of the AI revolution, quietly serving as an enabler of everything from self-driving cars to large language models (LLMs). Wang is now moving into a leadership role of high stakes at Meta, taking the helm at a newly created research lab aimed at creating artificial superintelligence (ASI).