Mark Zuckerberg has made a big bet on AI and has acquired a 49 percent stake in Scale AI. Also, under this deal, Scale AI’s co-founder and CEO, Alexandr Wang, has now been included in Meta. Alexandr Wang is now 28 years old, and he will take charge of Meta’s new Super Intelligence unit.
Alexandr Wang is the 28-year-old man who will now take charge of the new Super Intelligence unit created by Facebook’s parent company, Meta. With the help of this new unit, the company wants to be at the forefront of the AI industry. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has recruited big names from the tech industry for this unit by paying them a hefty amount.
Let us tell you that Alexandr Wang that he has become the youngest self-made billionaire in the year 2021 i.e., at the age of just 24. Let’s know about him and the Meta Deal.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has included eminent people from the AI industry for the Super Intelligence unit. For this unit, he has given a package of up to 200 million US Dollars (about Rs 1600 crores) to former Apple employee Ruoming Pang.
Alexandr Wang will become the chief of the Super Intelligence Unit
Coming back to Alexandr Wang, we tell you that he will now be the chief of Meta’s Super Intelligence unit. Meta has recently struck a deal, after which Meta will now invest 14.3 billion US dollars (about 1.2 lakh crore rupees) in Scale AI. Also, it will acquire up to 49 percent stake in this deal.
Under this deal, Alexandr Wang will join Meta. He will also take charge of the new Super Intelligence unit. Meta has also confirmed this partnership.
Meta’s second-biggest deal
Meta’s partnership with Scale AI is its second-biggest partnership. Earlier, the company had acquired the instant messaging app WhatsApp in 2014 by paying US $19 billion.
Scale AI was started in the year 2016
Scale AI was started in the year 2016. The job of this company is to provide necessary data on a large scale. Advanced AI systems are trained using this data. By the year 2024, the value of this company was about 14 million US dollars.
Who is Alexandr Wang?
Alexandr Wang was born in New Mexico in 1997. His parents came from China. Both of them were physicists and worked for the US Air Force.
Alexandr Wang praised his parents
Wang said during a 2022 TED Talk that his parents were brilliant scientists from Los Alamos. Los Alamos is actually a city in New Mexico and also a national lab.
He further said that he was very intelligent in the subject of math. During this time, he had performed brilliantly in the National Math and Coding Competition during the 6th class.
Dropped out of MIT studies
Alexandr Wang enrolled in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US and then dropped out of school. After this, he started Scale AI, and today, he has reached this position. Now he will take over the reins of the giants of the AI industry.
