{"id":938668,"date":"2025-06-14T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T05:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=938668"},"modified":"2025-06-14T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T05:44:00","slug":"scale-ai-founder-alexandr-wang-joins-meta-for-ai-research-who-is-he-and-why-is-zuckerberg-investing-on-his-29-billion-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/14\/scale-ai-founder-alexandr-wang-joins-meta-for-ai-research-who-is-he-and-why-is-zuckerberg-investing-on-his-29-billion-startup\/","title":{"rendered":"Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang joins Meta for AI research: Who is he and why is Zuckerberg investing on his $29 billion startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938668","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}