A profile of Alexandr Wang, who sources say is "an operator", had "all" of Zuckerberg's support during Meta's AI revamp, and is being touted as his successor
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Succession chatter around the 29-year-old running Meta’s Superintelligence Labs is a reminder that AI strategy is now core to corporate governance, not just product. If you’re at scale and AI-critical, board and leadership planning should explicitly account for who owns the model roadmap and how that power is institutionalized, not just which team ships the next feature.
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