Meta has hired 28-Year-Old ScaleAI CEO after investing $14.3 billion in the firm, to further its artificial intelligence development

Scale co-founder and CEO Alexandr Wang will lead Meta’s new superintelligence unit.

Now, Meta is slated to launch a research lab devoted to building superintelligent AI, according to a report from The New York Times. Alexander Wang, the 28-year-old founder of Scale AI, a startup that helps companies build AI apps, which could receive a multibillion-dollar investment from Meta soon, will reportedly join the new lab.

Alexandr Wang dropped out of MIT to co-found Scale and was quickly lauded as one of Silicon Valley's most promising entrepreneurs, raising funding from blue-chip venture capital firms and achieving billionaire status in his 20s.