Alexandr Wang

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Founder of Scale AI and, since 2025, Chief AI Officer at Meta, where he leads the company’s superintelligence lab.

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AI alignment 4

The world is barely ready for this technology, and the people building it have a responsibility to prepare the world rather than only to ship.
Arguing about whether superintelligence arrives in two years or five is close to a waste of time, because very powerful models are inevitable either way.

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ambition 3

Today’s models are already powerful enough to add many points of GDP growth; what is missing is people with the vision and ambition to apply them.
The scarce resource is about to stop being intelligence or agency and become vision and ambition.

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startups 3

The only way to build something that matters is to develop conviction in a set of beliefs nobody else agrees with yet, long before they become consensus.
A founder who takes their bearings from what everyone around them is saying will end up nowhere; you have to build your own compass for what the future looks like.

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AI agents 2

A swarm of agents with the right loop and the right metric can already out-produce a team of a hundred engineers.
AI has ended the David-versus-Goliath era of startups: a startup that properly embraces agents can now easily outcompete incumbents.

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