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Alexandr Wang

Alexandr Wang

Chief AI officer of Meta

Appears in 2 stories

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

Notable Quotes

"Nine months ago we rebuilt our AI stack from scratch... This is step one. Bigger models are already in development with plans to open-source future versions." — Alexandr Wang on X, April 8, 2026

"This is so silly." — Meta spokesperson Andy Stone, dismissing reports that Wang had been sidelined, March 2026

Stories

Meta abandons open-source AI playbook with first proprietary model from Superintelligence Labs

New Capabilities

Leading Meta's AI rebuild; delivered first model nine months after joining

For three years, Meta staked its artificial intelligence strategy on giving models away. The company's Llama series became the most widely used open-weight model family in the industry, downloaded hundreds of millions of times. On April 8, 2026, Meta released Muse Spark — the first model built by its new Superintelligence Labs division — and kept it closed. The shift is not subtle: the company that once argued open-source AI would defeat proprietary rivals the way Linux defeated Unix is now competing on their terms.

Updated Apr 8

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 Mar 13