- Alexandr Wang, once the youngest homemade billionaire in the worldagreed to join Meta To work on AI “Superintelligence” and leave the startup that made him with the rich after the demolition.
Alexandr Wangs Skala Ai has just concluded an investment contract of $ 14.3 billion with Meta, which is transferred to the 28-year-old from his position of the CEO in the startup, which he co-founded with the billionaire and the alienated business partner Lucy Guo.
Wang announced Thursday on X that he leaves scale to the part of a meta agreement As a result, CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Tech company has a share of 49%. Wang became the The youngest, homemade billionaire in the world At the age of 24, just five years after the college of the college and the establishment of the company based in San Francisco. Well, his estimated Net value Is 3.6 billion US dollars.
“I founded this company directly from the first year and never looked back,” Wang wrote in his memo to scale the AI employees on Thursday. “I wouldn’t change it for a minute.”
Wang will continue to act as a director on the company’s board of directors, while working on “Superintelligence efforts” for Meta, a spokesman for the AI spokeswoman for measures told CNBCbut not associated with details. In his note, Wang said that he would poach a few “scales” employees to take him to Meta, but did not call them.
In the meantime, the board of Scale and Wang decided to appoint Chief Strategy Officer Jason Drug as a temporary CEO. Before Droege came to the Skala AI in August 2024, according to his venture partner, he was at Benchmark and Uber Vice President LinkedIn.
For Wang, he leads part of his success over the years to the AI industry.
“I think naivety has a great bonus” YouTube podcast. “The approach to the industries with a completely empty plate and without a fine understanding of grain, which makes things difficult, is actually part of what enables them to achieve things.”
Wang also encouraged startup founders to be “more open”, something that he and his colleagues in the Skala Ki used from the company’s early days.
Zuckerberg has reportedly made AI A The top priority for 2025. The investment in Wang’s specialist knowledge can be part of that reported Assembly of a 50-member superintelligence AI team at Meta, which on rivals such as Google And open.
Metas youngest Lama 4 AI models received a lukewarm Answer From developers, CNBC Registered in May.
With his experience with META competitors, including Google, Wang is taken away. MicrosoftAnd open. Meta is one of the largest customers of Scale AI.
In his memo, Wang, he hesitated, wrote to agree to the offer and called the option “unimaginable” option after the afterwashing after the extent after the extension after the scale -KI. increase 1 billion US dollars last year by investors including Amazon and meta with an evaluation of 13.8 billion US dollars.
“But when I spent time to really think about it, I realized that this was a deeply unique moment, not only for me, but also for scale,” wrote Wang.
This deal more than doubles AI’s evaluation of AI to $ 29 billion.
This story was originally on Fortune.com
