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Alexandr Wang: From MIT Dropout to Meta's Chief AI Officer

Alexandr Wang founded Scale AI at 19 and became one of the youngest self-made billionaires. In 2025 Meta acquired a 49% stake in Scale and brought Wang in to lead its superintelligence lab.

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Meta Superintelligence Labs (formerly Scale AI)

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Aravind Srinivas: Building Perplexity Into Google's First Real Challenger

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Aravind Srinivas: Building Perplexity Into Google's First Real Challenger

Aravind Srinivas co-founded Perplexity AI in 2022 with a specific thesis: the answer engine, not the link engine, was the next default. Three years later Perplexity is one of the most-cited AI companies in the world.

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