The US Army has launched the Executive Innovation Corps under Detachment 201 to recruit tech leaders from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI. Shyam Sankar, Andrew Bosworth, Kevin Weil, and Bob McGrew are now Army Reserve officers,

Top executives from Meta, OpenAI, and Palantir join Army Reserve as lieutenant colonels in Detachment 201, a new tech-driven military unit.

Mark Zuckerberg has reorganized his company’s ambitions around a hypothetical future that is suddenly the talk of Silicon Valley.

Executives from high-tech firms Meta, OpenAI and Palantir are joining the Army Reserve at the rank of lieutenant colonel to serve in Detachment 201, a new “Executive Innovation Corps,” the service announced Friday.

Alexandr Wang dropped out of MIT to co-found Scale and was quickly lauded as one of Silicon Valley's most promising entrepreneurs, raising funding from blue-chip venture capital firms and achieving billionaire status in his 20s.

As part of the deal, Alexandr Wang is leaving Scale for Meta, where he’ll work on a new “superintelligence” team (presumably in a leadership role). This isn’t a typical acquihire: only “around four Scale employees” are expected to join Meta,