2025
Mark Zuckerberg says his first call with Alexandr Wang about joining Meta lasted 44 minutes.
“alright we talked for 44 minutes or whatever.”
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Alexandr Wang
6 facts from 2 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2026
Alexandr Wang said that tens of billions of dollars is a good estimate for the total cost of training a frontier AI model at Meta.
“I've seen the financial roll-ups. Tens of billions of dollars is a good estimate for”
2026
Mark Zuckerberg said Alexandr Wang has almost 200 direct reports, though he noted it is less extreme in practice because of team leads.
“but you have almost 200 direct reports. It's not quite that extreme in practice.”
2026
Alexandr Wang said Meta invested a huge percentage of its compute into pre-training Muse Wonder.
“a huge percentage of our compute into training muse wonder into pre-training muse wonder”
Undated
Scott Wu and Alexandr Wang started at Addepar on the same day as high schoolers, among a group of four.
“there were four of us who started at the same time as high schoolers. And it was myself, Alexandr Wang was actually another one. We started on the same day.”
Undated
Scott Wu met Alexandr Wang in sixth grade at the national Math Counts competition; Wang was from New Mexico and Wu from Louisiana.
“He was from New Mexico. I was from Louisiana. But we met in this math competition called Math Counts. We were both at the national competition.”
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