Zuckerberg: Scale AI's Alexandr Wang is 'the sharpest entrepreneur of his generation'
garrytan · x · 2026-10-13
Mark Zuckerberg calls Alexandr Wang "the sharpest entrepreneur of his generation" and "the fucking guy," revealing he spoke with Wang every few months for years and was consistently impressed by his strategic thinking. He acknowledges initial skepticism about "the social media guy partnering with the data guy to build a frontier lab," but says after talking to leaders of every lab, his conviction held — shedding light on Meta's $14.3B move to bring Wang in to lead its superintelligence lab.
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