Alexandr Wang is now leading Meta’s AI dream team. Will Mark Zuckerberg’s big bet pay off?

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Alexandr Wang is now leading Meta’s AI dream team. Will Mark Zuckerberg’s big bet pay off?

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In the summer of 2016, Alexandr Wang was a 19-year-old building his data-labeling startup, Scale AI, in a Silicon Valley pool house with his cofounder, Lucy Guo, while the two participated in the Y Combinator startup accelerator. When not working, the two founders slept on air mattresses…

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