Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang is such an enthusiastic networker that his former roommate — OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman — once jokingly told him to tone it down a bit.

Alexandr Wang, once the youngest self-made billionaire in the world, has agreed to join Meta to work on AI “superintelligence,” leaving the startup that made him rich after dropping out of MIT. Alexandr Wang’s Scale AI just inked a $14.

Last week, the 28-year-old secured a US$14.3b Meta deal and a role in its superintelligence group. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The negotiations started as just one billionaire tech founder talking to another. Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg approached Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang in mid-April about a potentially industry-shaking deal.

Meta's $14 billion investment in Scale AI set off a flurry of dealmaking in the AI data industry, as Meta's rivals cut ties with Scale for other data companies

Alphabet’s Google plans to end its relationship with Scale AI, an AI data-annotation startup, after Meta acquired a 49% stake in the company, valuing it at $29bn, reported Reuters. As Scale AI’s largest client,