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Nino Paoli

Self-made billionaire college dropout Alexandr Wang signs $14.3 billion deal to bolster Meta’s AI efforts: ‘There’s a huge premium to naivete’

Photo of Alexandr Wang (Credit: Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
  • Alexandr Wang, once the youngest self-made billionaire in the world, has agreed to join Meta to work on AI “superintelligence,” leaving the startup that made him rich after dropping out of MIT.

Alexandr Wang’s Scale AI just inked a $14.3 billion investment deal with Meta, which transitions the 28-year-old out of his CEO position at the startup he cofounded with fellow billionaire and estranged business partner Lucy Guo.

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