A lexandr Wang is a technology prodigy and the co-founder and CEO of Scale AI, a company that has become a critical player in the development of artificial intelligence. The son of Chinese physicists who worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Wang excelled in math and coding from a young age. He briefly attended MIT before dropping out at 19 to start Scale AI with co-founder Lucy Guo, backed by the prestigious startup accelerator Y Combinator.

Wang identified a crucial bottleneck in the AI industry: the need for massive amounts of high-quality, human-labeled data to train machine learning models. Scale AI provides this service, using a combination of software tools and a managed workforce to label data for a wide range of applications, from self-driving cars to e-commerce and robotics. As CEO, Wang has steered the company to a multi-billion dollar valuation, securing contracts with major tech companies and the U.S. government, and becoming one of the world's youngest self-made billionaires.