Meta AI Chief Sees Opportunity in Models’ Giving Health Advice

Meta Platforms Inc. Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang said the company’s future artificial intelligence models will differentiate themselves from competitors through their consumer health capabilities.

“Health is an area that we view as really critical as we scale these models out to billions,” Wang, who has helmed Meta’s artificial-intelligence strategy for the last year, said Thursday at the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco.

The 29-year-old founder of data-labeling startup Scale AI joined Meta after Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg overhauled his company’s AI efforts, including through a $14 billion investment in Scale that was widely viewed as a bid ...