The New Youngest Self-Made Billionaire In The World Is A 25-Year-Old College DropoutAlexandr Wang grew up in the shadow of New Mexico’s Los Alamos National Lab. His parents were physicists who worked on weapons projects for the military. Now he does too:
Wang’s company Scale AI has already inked three contracts worth up to $110 million, contingent on the government’s needs, to help America’s Air Force and Army employ artificial intelligence.
Scale’s technology analyzes satellite images much faster than human analysts. It’s useful not just for the military. More than 300 companies, including General Motors and Flexport, use Scale, which Wang started when he was 19, to
help them pan gold from rivers of raw information — millions of shipping documents, say, or raw footage from self-driving cars.
Wang’s estimated
15% stake is worth $1 billion, making him the world’s youngest self-made billionaire.
