Scale AI’s 28-Year-Old Billionaire CEO Warns About This Scarily Good Chinese Startup

Scale AI’s 28-Year-Old Billionaire CEO Warns About This Scarily Good Chinese Startup

Alexandr Wang is one of the world’s youngest self-made billionaires. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

For around a decade, the U.S. has retained its A.I. dominance over China, according to Alexandr Wang, the 28-year-old founder and CEO of Scale AI, a $13 billion startup. But with the Christmas release of an “earth-shattering” A.I. model from the Chinese startup DeepSeek, the gap between the two countries is becoming dangerously narrower, Wang said in an interview with CNBC on Jan. 23.