Zuckerberg has given the keys of the future to a child prodigy of 97

There is the elite talent ecosystem in AI like a anthill in the rain by The 100 classes that Zuckerberg is disbursing (In some case even more) to be able to take a goal to not only scientists of a very high level, but to the type of people who are able to move the needle that matters most: that of the stock market capitalization of the entire company.

In those, surely he is not doing all the noise that the person deserves in whose hands the real power of the goal has ended. It is the one who solved the most mundane and decisive problem: how to feed it.

Alexandr Wang, 28 years oldHe did not create Chatgpt or Gemini, but he did built a fundamental infrastructure to make possible proposals. And now Zuckerberg has opted 14.3 billion dollars to this – insulting – young is the piece he needed to win the superintelligence career.

Son of outstanding scientists in New Mexico, Wang is the founder of Scale AI, a company that does the dirty work, the one that nobody sees but everyone needs: label and prepare the data that train the most advanced AI models of the world. It is not glamorous, but it is indispensable.

Like himself He explained“AI is reduced to three pillars: computation, data and algorithms. The computation is promoted by people like Nvidia, algorithmic advances come from great laboratories such as OpenAi, and the data is fed by Scale.”

His great success was to understand something that in 2025 seems obvious but that a few years ago was: that the bottleneck of the AI ​​does not only go to algorithms or calculation power, but of quality data, something that We already count on Xataka In … 2019!

And Wang, instead of pursuing a viral AI application, started selling shovels in full gold fever.

And it turns out that everyone needed shovels.

On Monday, Zuckerberg sent an internal memo that sounds more like a declaration of war than with simple reorganization. And it is fair to recognize that when Zuckerberg gets in visionary mode, he usually is right. Nine years ago he nailed him.

Wang is a technical genius, but only explains a part of his meteoric ascent despite his youth. The least obvious is that Early understanding where the real value is. When researchers much more experienced than he focused on competing creating better algorithms, he realized that the future would be the one to control the data.

“You can have the best algorithms in the world, but if you don’t have quality data, you have nothing,” said Wang. Scale AI became the data provider for OpenAi, Google, Microsoft and, of course, goal. Basically, It was placed in the modern AI supply chain center. Something that has earned more than 14,000 million.

His business philosophy is also pure maturity and balance, not always present in entrepreneurs under 30 (Ahem). Keep personal control over each hiring. Also about each data delivery to its customers. “The quality is fractal, the high standards are filtered throughout the organization”, He said.

It is also true that if Scale AI was in creditors, we would say that he could not delegate. As the scenario is very different, we praise its involvement.

It is, in any case, obsessive to the extreme, but in the correct specific aspects and not with all the width of an organization. “If you really exceed something, if you go to 10 miles per hour of more and constantly go further, then you will improve faster than any other,” said. Pise the accelerator so as not to lift the foot from there.

Meta needed Wang because his previous strategy has not finished working:

• Call 4 It has been a disappointment in a market in which a disappointment is lapidary.
• Eleven of the fourteen researchers of the flame team They have left target. Several of them have gone to Mistral.
• Zuckerberg has realized that he is losing a career he really wants to win.

And his solution has been to buy the most valuable data ecosystem in the world and give the keys to its creator.

Meta reorganization under the umbrella of ‘Meta Superintelligence Labs’ is much more than cosmetics. It is a tacit admission that AI cannot be another department within the finish line. It has to be a goal. And he has put a traditional one twenty -year -old Yann Lecun.

It is a total commitment: that in the world of superintelligence, it matters more to understand how the AI ​​business works that the algorithms work.

Wang has been selling shovels for years while others cavan. Now Zuckerberg has given him the treasure map.

In Xataka | If in 2020 they would have asked us which technology would be more attractive in 2025 we would not have said ‘goal’. But here we are

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