AI BriefingMeta's AI chief on the AI rivalry, new models, and life with Zuckerberg
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Meta AI lead Alexandr Wang revealed new models and competitive strategy.
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Alexandr Wang left Scale AI last June and joined Meta in a deal worth $14 billion. Meta, believing it had fallen behind in the AI race, brought him in as a key figure, and Wang moved to the South Bay and has been working near full-time close to Meta's headquarters.
Muse Spark, unveiled last month, was introduced as the first result of Meta's reorganized AI efforts, and Wang spoke for the first time in this Core Memory podcast interview.
He touched on the following:
- His personal conflict with Sam Altman
- Zuckerberg personally delivering soup to AI recruiting talent
- The massive compensation packages Meta is offering
- The enormous amount of development work that still remains
- Meta's AI hierarchy, including Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and Shengjia Zhao
Wang is trying to make the case that Meta can close the gap with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Alphabet.
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