The 'HRT gang': quant interns now running Meta AI, Cognition, Hyperliquid
智东西 · wechat · 2026-11-06
Meta's chief AI officer Alexandr Wang reunited with Cognition co-founder Scott Wu and Hyperliquid co-founder Jeff Yan — all alumni of a Hudson River Trading winter internship. Wang now heads Meta Superintelligence amid CEO-succession chatter (though Zuckerberg retains 60.6% voting power); Cognition hit a $48B valuation with $900M ARR; Hyperliquid earned $105M in September; fellow intern Jesse Zhang's Decagon is valued at $4.5B. The 'new Silicon Valley mafia' spans AI and crypto, with Founders Fund investing in both Scale AI and Cognition.
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