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▶ 11:39 · $META · Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity”
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Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity”

2026-07-29 · 2 company · 7 thematic
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alexander wang

Founded Scale AI at 19 after working at Quora and attending MIT; joined Meta a year ago to build a frontier AI lab from scratch, launching Muse Spark models and pursuing an open-source AI strategy to empower global developers.

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“I've been at Meta for about a year now and it's been um quite a year. I think uh you know getting in and um you know meta we we've talked about it publicly like law before wasn't on the trajectory that was needed for um for meta and so I g…”
—alexander wang
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