New Delhi: Meta is betting big on artificial intelligence. Its CEO Mark Zuckerberg appointed Alexandr Wang, the 28-year-old founder of Scale AI, to lead Meta’s newly formed Superintelligence Labs in June this year.

Valued at $14.3 billion, the deal stands as one of the largest AI hirings and acquisitions in recent memory, signaling the company’s determination to dominate the next frontier in technology.

From College Dropout To AI Billionaire

Wang’s rise is the epitome of Silicon Valley ambition. Born in New Mexico to Chinese physicist parents at Los Alamos National Laboratory, he showed a precocious talent in mathematics and computer science. He enrolled at MIT but left in 2016 to launch Scale AI, a startup focussed on high-quality annotated data for machine learning models.

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