Alexandr Wang, who now leads Meta's AI efforts, says he sent Mark Zuckerberg a lengthy memo just days before accepting the job. Its main point: a small group of top talent matters more than a big workforce.
He shared those details on the Cheeky Pint podcast, with Zuckerberg as a guest. Zuckerberg said the second idea was being ready to start over, and admitted he was unhappy with Llama 4.
Wang puts Meta's core AI research team at closer to 100 people. Its latest model, Muse Wonder, is out now, and Wang says it performs best on his team's agent tests.
Sachin Tendulkar has taken a non-controlling stake in Recykal, the Indian waste management technology firm.
His investment extends the $23 million round Recykal closed in June. The company will use the money to strengthen its tech platform, expand its Deposit Return System for packaging waste, and grow internationally.
Recykal's goal is to change the habits of a billion people, and Tendulkar said he was drawn in by how technology tackled a daily problem.
SpaceX plans to invest more than $74 billion across two AI supercomputing campuses, one in Texas and one in Arizona.
The Texas facility at Starbase, estimated at over $24 billion, will sit on about 444 acres near Brownsville and generate its own power off the public grid. The project has already created over 3,000 construction jobs.
The roughly $50 billion Arizona campus in Cochise County could scale up to 6 gigawatts, though it still needs county approvals. The Starbase city commission will weigh a property tax break for the Texas project on December 9.
