{"id":983563,"date":"2026-01-06T08:59:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=983563"},"modified":"2026-01-06T08:59:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:29:36","slug":"meta-ceo-mark-zuckerbergs-14-billion-ai-hire-alexandr-wang-makes-forbes-40-under-40-list-check-net-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/06\/meta-ceo-mark-zuckerbergs-14-billion-ai-hire-alexandr-wang-makes-forbes-40-under-40-list-check-net-worth\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s $14 billion AI hire Alexandr Wang makes Forbes 40 Under 40 list: Check net worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has shaken up the AI industry by hiring Alexander Wang a 28-year old to head Meta\u2019s newly created AI unit called Meta Superintelligence Labs. This hiring is a major development since Meta has also invested 14 Billion dollars in Alexander Wang\u2019s data focussed AI firm Scale AI. <\/p>\n<p>This hiring and the growing influence of Alexander Wang in the AI sector is also reflected by his inclusion in the Forbes 40 Under 40: The Richest Self Made Billionaires List. Forbes lists his net worth at about $3.2 billion USD as of early 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has shaken up the AI industry by hiring Alexander Wang a 28-year old to head Meta\u2019s newly created AI unit called Meta Superintelligence Labs. This hiring is a major development since Meta has also invested 14 Billion dollars in Alexander Wang\u2019s data focussed AI firm Scale AI. This hiring and the growing influence of Alexander Wang in the AI sector is also reflected by his inclusion in the Forbes 40 Under 40: The Richest Self Made Billionaires List. Forbes lists his net worth at about $3.2 billion USD as of early 2026.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983563","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=983563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}