Mark Zuckerberg strips power from Alexandr Wang, Meta’s top-paid AI exec, via restructuring.
JAKARTA – Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has quietly begun dismantling the power structure of Alexandr Wang, the company’s highest‑paid executive.
According to a report by Times of India (04/03/2026), the move signals that Zuckerberg has begun to lose confidence in the 28‑year‑old data‑labelling entrepreneur.
The shift comes just nine months after Wang was hired in a US$14 billion “bet” to lead Meta Superintelligence Labs with full authority over the company’s most advanced AI models.
Wang’s sidelining reached its peak on Tuesday when Meta announced the creation of a new applied artificial‑intelligence engineering organisation led by veteran executive Maher Saba.
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Saba now reports directly to Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth, not to Wang. His new organisation has been deliberately structured with an extremely flat hierarchy up to 50 individual contributors per manager and is tasked with building a “data engine” to accelerate and improve the quality of Meta’s AI models.
Through this new team, Zuckerberg has effectively shifted all engineering talent, data pipelines, and model‑evaluation functions to operate outside Wang’s authority.
Even the Avocado and Mango AI models that Wang had promised will now be built and trained on data infrastructure fully controlled by Saba.
The internal rift stems from a sharp clash of visions. Wang reportedly clashed frequently with Zuckerberg’s trusted lieutenants, Chris Cox and Andrew Bosworth.
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