Meta AI head Alexandr Wang to American startups: Working for US government is not a matter of convenience, but basic principle

Meta AI head Alexandr Wang has called on American startups to treat serving the US government as a fundamental principle rather than a commercial convenience. Reacting to a post shared by Aakash Sabharwal, VP of engineering at Scale AI, Wang said: “Serving the US government should not be a commercial convenience, it must be a bedrock principle for startups.” Sabharwal, responding to a Forbes report on Chinese companies sourcing training data from Silicon Valley firms, warned that data companies working with the U.S.