{"id":938487,"date":"2025-06-14T07:15:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T01:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=938487"},"modified":"2025-06-14T07:21:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T01:51:39","slug":"from-scale-ai-to-metas-ai-boss-who-is-alexandr-wang-the-28-year-old-mit-dropout-gunning-for-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/14\/from-scale-ai-to-metas-ai-boss-who-is-alexandr-wang-the-28-year-old-mit-dropout-gunning-for-openai\/","title":{"rendered":"From Scale AI to Meta\u2019s AI boss: Who is Alexandr Wang, the 28-year-old MIT dropout gunning for OpenAI?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms is investing $15 billion for a 49% stake in Scale AI, a data-labelling startup now valued at $29 billion. The deal, confirmed by both companies on Thursday, marks a strategic shift for Meta as it races to reclaim its edge in artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n<p>The main draw? Alexandr Wang. <\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old MIT dropout and CEO of Scale AI will join Meta to lead its newly-formed superintelligence team. This unit is tasked with building systems that push beyond today\u2019s artificial intelligence capabilities\u2014towards artificial superintelligence (ASI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms is investing $15 billion for a 49% stake in Scale AI, a data-labelling startup now valued at $29 billion. The deal, confirmed by both companies on Thursday, marks a strategic shift for Meta as it races to reclaim its edge in artificial intelligence. The main draw? Alexandr Wang. The 28-year-old MIT dropout and CEO of Scale AI will join Meta to lead its newly-formed superintelligence team. This unit is tasked with building systems that push beyond today\u2019s artificial intelligence capabilities\u2014towards artificial superintelligence (ASI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}