{"id":715859,"date":"2026-06-05T01:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T01:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/715859\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T01:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T01:05:09","slug":"metas-mark-zuckerberg-pins-his-ai-billions-on-29-year-old-wunderkind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/715859\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta\u2019s Mark Zuckerberg pins his AI billions on 29-year-old wunderkind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hannah Murphy<\/p>\n<p>Jun 5, 2026 \u2013 5.00am<\/p>\n<p>A year after Mark Zuckerberg installed Alexandr Wang to jolt Meta\u2019s artificial intelligence efforts into wartime mode, the $US1.5 trillion ($2.1 trillion) company has produced Muse Spark, its most credible AI model yet.<\/p>\n<p>By handing responsibility for Meta\u2019s AI revival to a then-28-year-old start-up founder rather than a veteran researcher, Zuckerberg bet that an outsider\u2019s urgency and ambition could succeed where the company\u2019s established AI organisation had struggled.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Financial Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hannah Murphy Jun 5, 2026 \u2013 5.00am A year after Mark Zuckerberg installed Alexandr Wang to jolt Meta\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-715859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}