-1 To Scale with Alexandr Wang
South Park Commons is delighted to host Alexandr Wang of Scale as part of our -1 to Now series!
Event Details
2:30pm: Doors Open
3-4pm: Fireside Chat with Alexandr Wang
4-4:30pm: Networking
Alexandr Wang is the founder and CEO of Scale AI, the leading AI data foundry helping fuel the most important advancements in AI, including autonomous vehicles, defense applications, and generative AI. Alex founded Scale in 2016 as a 19-year-old MIT student to supply AI projects with the right data and infrastructure.
Scale is the market leading data foundry for both AI model and application builders. It serves customers across industries, from the U.S. Department of Defense to Microsoft, Meta, General Motors, and OpenAI.
Alex grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico. He had a deep passion for coding and quickly developed a knack for it as a teenager, winning national computing and physics competitions, including the USA Computing Olympiad. He enrolled at MIT at 17, where he excelled in graduate machine learning coursework as a freshman, before dropping out to found Scale in 2016.
“Our aim with Scale, even from the early days, was to be the company that could renew industries by empowering businesses to build with AI what they otherwise couldn’t.”
His technical expertise, combined with a focus on data quality and accuracy, has led Scale to rise above the competition and meet the demand for intelligent software. Scale is currently valued at nearly $14 billion.
Scale is built on Alex’s conviction that the future of AI is data-first. Alex believes that high-quality data, with the right tools and infrastructure, will enable enterprises to deploy AI as easily as they deploy code. Scale is an AI readiness partner, helping teams manage their entireAIL lifecycle from dataset management, data selection, data annotation, to model development - all in one place.
As the child of scientists who immigrated to the United States and a proud American, Alex is unapologetically committed to advancing deployment-ready AI solutions for the United States and its allies. Scale’s data foundry and Donovan platform aid analysts and operators in their mission through data annotation, enhanced decision support, and insight generation.
📢 -1 to Now is a recurring speaker series at South Park Commons exploring how the world's best builders and thinkers took their ideas from -1 to 0 and beyond. Join us for the inside stories of their experiments, pivots, and breakthroughs on the way to where they are today.