"This summer, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg moved heaven and earth to recharge his company's lagging AI division, spending billions of dollars to poach top talent across the industry. But it sounds like he's already falling out with the man he hired to spearhead Meta's renewed AI efforts, Alexandr Wang. According to new reporting from the Financial Times, things are tense between the duo."
"His decision to hire Wang was controversial to begin with. Wang is the founder and former CEO of the AI data annotation startup Scale AI, which provides an essential service for training AI models, but doesn't actually build them. In June, Zuckerberg poured over $14 billion into Scale AI, and poached Wang in the process to lead Meta's newly dubbed Superintelligence Labs. Wang is also leading a secretive "TBD" (To Be Determined) lab which works in its own building."
Mark Zuckerberg invested heavily this summer to revive Meta's lagging AI division, spending billions to recruit top industry talent and hiring Alexandr Wang from Scale AI. Wang has told associates he finds Zuckerberg's micromanagement to be suffocating. Some staff question whether the 28-year-old Wang has the expertise and experience to lead Meta's AI efforts. Zuckerberg poured over $14 billion into Scale AI in June and positioned Wang to lead Meta's newly dubbed Superintelligence Labs. Yann LeCun exited after being required to report to Wang. Scale AI focuses on data annotation rather than model building, and Wang also leads a secretive "TBD" lab.
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