Meta’s highest paid employee Alexandr Wang ‘admits’ the company’s previous AI policy didn’t work, says other labs are seeing the…

Alexandr Wang, the Scale AI co-founder Mark Zuckerberg hired last year as Meta’s Chief AI Officer after a reported $15 billion deal, has acknowledged on Bloomberg Tech that Meta’s longstanding open-source approach hit a wall with Muse Spark. The model, released in April, stayed proprietary because internal testing flagged risks the company couldn’t safely contain in an open release, and Wang says rival labs are running into the same problem as their models scale.

“It actually triggered some high risk areas in the course of early training, particularly around bio risk, but also a number of risks were elevated,” Wang told Bloomberg.