Alexandr Wang, the 28-year-old billionaire founder of Scale AI who joined Meta earlier this year after the company paid more than $14 billion for a 49% stake in his startup, privately believes CEO Mark Zuckerberg's micromanagement of the company's AI push is "suffocating," according to a Financial Times report citing multiple people familiar with the situation. Wang's unhappiness is the latest sign of internal upheaval at Meta, which has faced repeated layoffs, senior executive exits, rushed AI rollouts, and eye-popping spending. A major trouble was the botched rollout of Meta's AI model Llama 4, which lagged behind rivals on key benchmarks such as coding and complex reasoning; Meta was also accused of trying to game AI leaderboards. Current and former employees blamed weak training data, insufficient testing, and deep organizational dysfunction. In response, Zuckerberg doubled down, launching a hiring blitz, dangling compensation packages worth up to $100 million, and pouring tens of billions of dollars into AI infrastructure. Wang heads the secretive TBD Lab, tasked with building a new flagship AI model codenamed "Avocado," though some Meta employees have privately questioned whether he is out of his depth managing massive research teams. Tensions have also surfaced between Zuckerberg and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, who faced mounting pressure to deliver quickly.