Who is Meta's new Chief AI Officer, Alexandr Wang

Technology Oct 09, 2025

Meta just named Alexandr Wang as its new Chief AI Officer, after investing $14.3 billion into his company, Scale AI.
This marks a big step in Meta's push to lead the AI race.

Wang's journey from MIT dropout to billionaire

Wang grew up in New Mexico with physicist parents and left MIT at 19 to build Scale AI—a startup that powers major AI models with high-quality training data.
By his twenties, he became a billionaire. Scale AI was valued at nearly $14 billion in May 2024, drawing investments from tech giants like NVIDIA, Amazon, and now Meta.

His vision for Meta's AI future

Now at Meta, Wang heads Superintelligence Labs alongside former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman.
He's reorganized their AI teams to focus on research, products, training, and infrastructure—all aimed at building safe and scalable AI for the future.