Alexandr Wang says Neuralink and other brain-computer interfaces will help kids learn in "crazy ways."

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.

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

Meta is paying $14.3 billion to buy 49-percent of Scale AI and hire its CEO, Alexandr Wang, to reboot its troubled AI efforts.

Scale AI plans to promote Jason Droege, the company's strategy chief, to run the artificial intelligence startup, CNBC confirmed. Meta is finalizing a $14 billion investment into Scale AI, CNBC previously reported.

Alexandr Wang dropped out of MIT to co-found Scale and was quickly lauded as one of Silicon Valley's most promising entrepreneurs, raising funding from blue-chip venture capital firms and achieving billionaire status in his 20s.