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Alexandr Wang

Alexandr Wang

Chief AI officer of Meta

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Born: January 1997 (age 29 years), Los Alamos, NM
Net worth: 3.2 billion USD (2026)
Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Los Alamos High School
Nationality: American

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The race to build frontier AI

New Capabilities

Under scrutiny as Avocado model underperforms; sidelining rumors denied by Meta

Meta Platforms has committed more money to artificial intelligence than any other company in history—up to $135 billion in 2026 alone, and $600 billion in American data center infrastructure by 2028. But money hasn't bought capability. The company's next-generation AI model, code-named Avocado, was delayed from March to at least May 2026 after internal tests showed it trailing systems already shipping from Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic on reasoning, coding, and writing tasks.

Updated 2 days ago