Alexandr Wang
Also known as alexandr_wang
Chief AI Officer at Meta, leading Meta Superintelligence Labs; co-founder of Scale AI.
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Lucy Guo
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- Alexandr Wang co-founded Scale AI in 2016 after leaving MIT.
- He ran Scale as CEO until June 2025.
- That month Meta bought 49% of Scale and he joined Meta as Chief AI Officer.
- He leads Meta Superintelligence Labs, whose Muse Spark model came out in April 2026.
Why it matters
- For anyone tracking the AI race: he runs Meta's frontier AI effort, and Scale AI supplied training data to many labs.
Key facts
- Current role
- Chief AI Officer, Meta (as of February 2026)3
- Leads
- Meta Superintelligence Labs, since 20251
- Born
- January 1997, Los Alamos, New Mexico1
- Education
- Attended MIT briefly; left to co-found Scale AI1
- Early jobs
- Programmer at Quora as a teenager; software engineer at Addepar1
- Scale AI
- Co-founder with Lucy Guo (2016); CEO from 2016 to June 2025; stays a director on Scale's board2
- Meta deal
- June 2025: Meta invested in Scale at a valuation of over $29 billion and Wang joined Meta2
- Muse Spark
- Model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, released April 20264
- Net worth
- US$3.6 billion, Forbes estimate, April 20251
Roles
Connections
Related
- Lucy Guo
Co-founded Scale AI together in 2016 1
Links
Sources
- Alexandr Wang (Wikipedia) (opens en.wikipedia.org)
- Scale AI announces next phase of company evolution (Scale AI blog, June 12, 2025) (opens scale.com)
- New Meta AI models coming soon, India use cases lead adoption: Alexandr Wang (MediaNews4U, February 21, 2026) (opens medianews4u.com)
- Meta races toward personal superintelligence with Muse Spark launch (The Daily Star, April 9, 2026) (opens thedailystar.net)
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