Alexandr Wang Biography
Alexandr Wang grew up in Los Alamos, left MIT at 19 to co-found Scale AI in 2016 and became Meta's chief AI officer in 2025 1.
Alexandr Wang's early life
Wang was born in January 1997 and grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where his parents, Chinese immigrants, worked as physicists at the national laboratory. He competed in maths and programming contests as a teenager 12.
From Quora to MIT
He worked as a software engineer at the question-and-answer site Quora before enrolling at MIT to study maths and computer science 2.
Scale AI
In 2016, at 19, he left MIT for the Y Combinator accelerator and co-founded Scale AI with Lucy Guo. Scale became a major supplier of labelled training data to AI labs, carmakers and the US military 12.
Meta
In June 2025 Meta bought 49% of Scale and hired Wang as its chief AI officer, leading its superintelligence efforts 1.
