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Meta Faces Executive Rift Over Company's AI Vision

Dec 11, 2025
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NYT reporting says Alexandr Wang clashed with senior Meta leaders over whether to use Instagram/Facebook data to train the company’s next frontier AI model. Wang pushed to catch up to OpenAI and Google first, while executives emphasized product integration. Sources say nearly $2B was proposed to shift from Reality Labs to Wang’s team, though Meta denies internal conflict.