American technology entrepreneur, founder of Scale AI, a data-labelling firm. Aged 28 in 2025, he is one of America's youngest self-made billionaires. In 2025 Meta paid $14.3bn for a 49% stake in Scale AI and named Mr Wang as head of its "superintelligence" unit, charged with developing new AI products.
The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.