Alexandr Wang

Alexandr Wang (Chinese: 汪滔; pinyin: Wāng Tāo;[2] born January 1997) is an American entrepreneur. He has been the chief AI officer of Meta Platforms since 2025 and leads its Superintelligence Labs.[3] He is the co-founder and former CEO of Scale AI, an artificial intelligence company that provides data labeling and large language model evaluation services to develop AI applications.[4][5] In 2021, Wang became the world's youngest "self-made billionaire" at age 24.[6][7][8] Forbes estimated his net worth at $3.6 billion as of April 2025[update].[9] Alexandr Wang was born in Los Alamos, New Mexico, in January 1997 to Chinese immigrants who worked as physicists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.[1][10] Wang grew passionate about math and computer programming at a young age. He qualified for the Math Olympiad Program in 2013, the US Physics Team in 2014, and was a USACO finalist in 2012 and 2013.[11] He studied at Los Alamos High School, before moving to Silicon Valley to become a software engineer at Addepar, a wealth management company.[12][13] During his teens, Wang worked for Quora as a software programmer.[14] He briefly attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and had an internship at the high-frequency trading firm Hudson River Trading, but dropped out of MIT to co-found Scale AI in 2016.[15][16] In 2016, Wang and Lucy Guo co-founded Scale AI, an artificial intelligence company that provides data labeling and model evaluation services to develop AI applications. Former Amazon executive Jeff Wilke served as an advisor to Wang.[17] In 2021, the company's valuation hit $7.3 billion, briefly giving Wang a $1 billion net worth, as he owned 15% of the company.[5][18] Scale AI has received defense contracts from the United States Armed Forces, and has been tapped by the Pentagon's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office to test and evaluate the safety and reliability of large language models for military planning and decision