Meta’s chief strategy officer Dave Wehner is leaving the company for four-year-old AI startup; sends ‘right mission’ message; says: I have become increasingly …

Dave Wehner, Meta’s chief strategy officer and former chief financial officer, is leaving the social media giant to join fast-growing AI startup Lin Qiao-led Fireworks as its new CFO, marking another high-profile move from Big Tech into the artificial intelligence sector. Wehner announced the move in a post on X, saying he had become increasingly convinced of the opportunity ahead for the four-year-old startup. “Fireworks has the right mission for the moment,” he wrote. “I’ve become increasingly bullish on what they are building. There’s a remarkable depth of technical talent here, coupled with a very practical focus on what customers need.” Fireworks, which provides AI inference and model-training services built around open-source AI models, was valued at $17.5 billion in a Series D funding round in July.