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A 44-minute call and a memo: How Alexandr Wang won Mark Zuckerberg’s trust—and a $100 billion-plus AI bet

Meta’s CEO and his 29-year-old chief AI officer revealed on Stripe cofounder John Collison’s podcast how one phone call became Meta Superintelligence Labs, and why the company’s CFO warned that failure would be “very, very bad in financial terms.”

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  1. 2026-10-17 11:55 · Fortune AI
    A 44-minute call and a memo: How Alexandr Wang won Mark Zuckerberg’s trust—and a $100 billion-plus AI bet

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