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Dropping out of MIT at 19, Wang built Scale AI into the $13 billion data-labeling backbone behind OpenAI, Meta, and the Pentagon — making him the architect of infrastructure that underpins both commercial and national-security AI.
Alexandr Wang is the Chief AI Officer at Meta Superintelligence Labs, leading Meta's AI strategy after founding and running Scale AI, the data infrastructure platform powering AI for companies including OpenAI, Microsoft, and the U.S.
Department of Defense. Wang founded Scale in 2016 at age 19 after dropping out of MIT and became the youngest self-made billionaire in America. He has testified before Congress on AI policy and national security.
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