Meta's 'highest-paid' employee taunts Google’s AI model, says ‘Gemini who’
Meta's Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang publicly mocked Google's new Gemini 3.6 Flash model after a leaderboard showed Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 outperforming it. This rivalry highlights the intense competition between tech giants in the race for superior agentic AI models.
Why it matters
The public exchange reflects the high-stakes corporate rivalry and the rapid pace of innovation in the AI sector.
Meta’s highest paid employee Alexandr Wang recently shared a post on X (formerly Twitter) taunting Google’s Gemini model. Wang was responding to a leaderboard shared by an X user – Tae Kim depicting Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 outperforming the world's biggest internet company’s latest AI model – Gemini 3.6 Flash. “Google getting beaten by @alexandr_wang this early, when Meta's new AI team is tiny in comparison, is absolutely embarrassing for Google,” the post stated. The chart quoted in the post from Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index showed top models like Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 (59) leading, with Gemini 3.6 Flash scoring 50 while Meta's entry ranks higher in reasoning, coding, and agentic tasks. Alexandr Wang shared the post on his timeline, writing “gemini who?”, underscoring Meta's rapid AI progress since his high-profile 2025 hire from Scale AI.
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