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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Dates
1861 –
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MIT
Over time
  1. Active 1861 –
  2. alumni and students Alexandr Wang (attended) 2015–2016

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alumni and students

  • Alexandr Wang 2015–2016 attended Primary record 123456789

    He left after a year, in 2016, to build Scale AI.

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Timeline 2 dates
  1. 1861 – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  2. 2015–2016 Alexandr Wang educated at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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  1. Alexandr Wang | Blog | Scale AI, Scale AI. Primary record
    He attended, and dropped out from, MIT, studying Artificial Intelligence.
  2. How The 22-Year-Old Founder Of Scale AI Built A Billion-Dollar Business, Forbes, 22 Dec 2019. Scholarship & press
    who left school at MIT to pursue Scale AI after just his freshman year of college.
  3. The inside story of Scale AI cofounder Alexandr Wang’s rise and the $14 billion Meta deal, Fortune, 22 Jun 2025. Scholarship & press
    dropped out of MIT after one year to pursue the startup dream
  4. Scale’s Series F: Expanding the Data Foundry for AI, Scale AI, 21 May 2024. Primary record
    In 2016, I was studying AI at MIT.
  5. The inside story of Scale AI cofounder Alexandr Wang’s rise and the $14 billion Meta deal, Fortune, 22 Jun 2025. Scholarship & press
    Wang, who competed in national math competitions in high school, dropped out of MIT after one year to pursue the startup dream
  6. Tech Unheard Episode 5: Alex Wang, Arm Newsroom, 16 Apr 2025. Scholarship & press
    And then I went to MIT for a year. I really wanted to study this AI thing.
  7. Why AI Will Never Replace Humans, TED (TEDxBerkeley), 26 Aug 2022. Scholarship & press
    to power AI, you need powerful data, which was especially hard to come by at that time, in 2016, while I was at MIT.
  8. Who Is Alexandr Wang, the Founder of Scale AI Joining Meta?, Entrepreneur, 16 Jun 2025. Scholarship & press
    He started Scale AI with Guo in 2016 at age 19, the summer after his freshman year at MIT
  9. Alexandr Wang, Forbes, 10 Mar 2026. Scholarship & press
    Education Drop Out, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  10. Visit | MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Primary record
    MIT is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, across the Charles River from Boston.
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