Alexandr Wang

Accomplishments

• Founded Scale AI in 2016 at age 19 while studying at MIT.¹²
• Led Scale AI as CEO for nearly a decade, building a leading test and evaluation partner for AI companies.²
• Guided a company whose work contributed to the development of most every leading AI model across the industry.¹
• Testified before Congress in 2023 on how artificial intelligence can strengthen U.S. national security.⁶⁷
• Became Meta's first-ever Chief AI Officer in June 2025, leading Meta Superintelligence Labs.¹
• Oversaw the launch of Muse Spark in April 2026, the first model in MSL's Muse family.³⁸¹
• Oversaw MSL's release of Muse Glimmer, an Apache 2.0 open-weight model for local agents, in August 2026.⁹¹

Early life and education

Wang grew up, in Wang's own words to Congress, "in the shadow of the Los Alamos National Lab," and has described the national security mission as a personal one.⁶

As a student, Wang won medals in national math, computing, and physics competitions, including the USA Math Olympiad, USA Physics Olympiad, and USA Computing Olympiad. Wang went on to study machine learning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, then left to found Scale AI.²⁵

Founding Scale AI

Wang founded Scale AI in 2016, at age 19, while a student at MIT. As Wang later told Congress, Scale was founded "with a mission to accelerate the development of AI."¹⁶

As chief executive officer from 2016 through June 2025, Wang built Scale into what Expedia Group's proxy statement describes as a leading test and evaluation partner for artificial intelligence companies. Meta credits Scale's work with contributing to the development of most every leading model across the industry.²¹

Advising on AI and national security

On July 18, 2023, Wang testified as Scale's chief executive officer before a subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee, at a hearing titled "Man and Machine: Artificial Intelligence on the Battlefield." Wang urged the United States to adopt and integrate new AI technology rapidly and effectively to support national security.⁶⁷

That same summer Wang joined the board of Expedia Group as an independent director, elected effective June 1, 2023. Expedia's board cites Wang's extensive technology experience and expertise, including in artificial intelligence and machine learning.⁵²

Leading Meta Superintelligence Labs

In June 2025 Wang joined Meta as the company's first-ever Chief AI Officer, leading Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). Announcing the move, Scale said Wang would remain a director on its board and continue to support the company, and interim CEO Jason Droege spoke of realizing Wang's vision of bringing the benefits of AI to everyone.¹⁴

Vision and recent work

In April 2026 MSL introduced Muse Spark, the first in the Muse family of models and the first product of what Meta calls a ground-up overhaul of its AI efforts. Meta describes Muse Spark as a natively multimodal reasoning model that supports tool use, visual chain of thought, and multi-agent orchestration, and it powers the Meta AI app and meta.ai. Meta framed the launch as scaling towards personal superintelligence.³⁸

In August 2026 MSL released Muse Glimmer, an open-weight model built for agents that run locally on a Mac or a single consumer GPU, under the Apache 2.0 license, which Meta calls the most permissive license it has used for an open model. In September 2026 Meta introduced Muse, a personal AI agent powered by Muse Spark that completes tasks on a dedicated, secure cloud computer.⁹¹⁰

Timeline

1. 2016Founded Scale AI at age 19 while a student at MIT, becoming its chief executive officer.¹²
2. Jun 1, 2023Joined the Expedia Group board of directors as an independent director.⁵
3. Jul 18, 2023Testified before a House Armed Services subcommittee on artificial intelligence and national security.⁶⁷
4. Jun 2025Joined Meta as its first-ever Chief AI Officer, leading Meta Superintelligence Labs.¹²
5. Jun 12, 2025Scale AI announced that its founder was joining Meta and would remain on Scale's board.⁴
6. Apr 8, 2026Meta Superintelligence Labs introduced Muse Spark, the first model in its Muse family.³⁸
7. Aug 12, 2026Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Glimmer, an open-weight model for local agents.⁹
8. Sep 8, 2026Meta introduced Muse, a personal AI agent powered by Muse Spark.¹⁰

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.

• Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Scale AI (2016 – 2025)²⁴

Honors and recognition

• Medalist in national math, computing, and physics competitions (USA Math Olympiad, USA Physics Olympiad, USA Computing Olympiad) · USA Math Olympiad, USA Physics Olympiad, and USA Computing Olympiad²⁵

Where they work

• Meta 106 people in the wiki
• Scale AI 2 people in the wiki
• Expedia Group 1 person in the wiki

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