Alexandr Wang: Building Scale AI, Transforming Work with Agents & Competing With China

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Lightcone Podcast

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Techno optimism for technical founders

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Techno optimism for technical founders

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Alexandr Wang: Building Scale AI, Transforming Work with Agents & Competing With China

Lightcone Podcast

1 hour 1 minute 12 seconds

1 week ago

Alexandr Wang: Building Scale AI, Transforming Work with Agents & Competing With China

Alexandr Wang started Scale AI to help machine learning teams label data faster.It started as a simple API for human labor, but behind the scenes, he was tackling a much bigger problem: how to turn messy, real-world data into something AI could learn from. Today, that early idea powers a multi-hundred-million-dollar engine behind America's AI infrastructure—fueling everything from Fortune 500 workflows to real-time military planning. Just last week, Meta agreed to invest over $14 billion in Scale AI, valuing the company at $29 billion.Alexandr joined us on the Lightcone to share how Scale AI evolved from a scrappy YC startup into the backbone of some of the world's most advanced AI systems, how he thinks about competition with Chinese AI labs, and what it takes to build infrastructure that shapes the frontier.