Alexandr Wang
Chief AI Officer, Meta · Co-founder, Scale AI
Born in Los Alamos, New Mexico in January 1997 to Chinese immigrant physicists, Alexandr Wang showed early signs of exceptional talent — qualifying for the Math Olympiad Program, the US Physics Team, and reaching USACO finalist status before finishing high school. He briefly attended MIT before dropping out at 19 to co-found Scale AI in 2016, a company that became the backbone of AI development for some of the world’s most ambitious organizations, including the US Department of Defense. By 2021, at just 24 years old, he became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, with a net worth Forbes now estimates at $3.6 billion.
What makes Wang truly remarkable isn’t just the numbers — it’s the conviction. He has consistently shown up at the highest levels of global AI policy, testifying before Congress, meeting with world leaders, and speaking at Davos about the stakes of the AI race between the US and China. In 2025, Meta acquired 49% of Scale AI for $14.3 billion and Wang stepped into the role of Chief AI Officer, leading Meta’s Superintelligence Labs. From a kid doing physics olympiads in New Mexico to shaping the future of artificial intelligence at one of the world’s largest companies — Alexandr Wang is the real deal.
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