01 · Biography
Who is Alexandr Wang?
Alexandr Wang is the American entrepreneur who co-founded Scale AI and since June 2025 has been chief AI officer at Meta Platforms. Forbes put his net worth at $3.2 billion (about ₹30,500 crore) on 4 November 2026 1.
How did Alexandr Wang make his money?
From Scale AIwhich labels and prepares the data used to train AI models. In June 2025 Meta bought 49% of Scale in a deal valuing it at about $29 billion, and Wang moved to Meta to lead its AI work 1. He was the world’s youngest self-made billionaire until October 2025 1.
Early life
Wang grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, the son of physicists. He left the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at 19 to join the Y Combinator accelerator and launch Scale in 2016 12.
