{"id":100599,"date":"2025-10-12T07:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T07:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/12\/thinking-machines-lab-co-founder-andrew-tulloch-heads-to-meta\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T07:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T07:22:12","slug":"thinking-machines-lab-co-founder-andrew-tulloch-heads-to-meta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/12\/thinking-machines-lab-co-founder-andrew-tulloch-heads-to-meta\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Andrew Tulloch heads to Meta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thinkingmachines.ai\/\">Thinking Machines Lab<\/a>, the AI startup led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has lost one of its co-founders to Meta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/thinking-machines-lab-co-founder-departs-for-meta-442d7461\">The Wall Street Journal reports<\/a> that AI researcher Andrew Tulloch announced his departure to employees in a message on Friday. A Thinking Machine Labs spokesperson confirmed Tulloch\u2019s departure to the WSJ, saying he \u201chas decided to pursue a different path for personal reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back in August, the WSJ reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/06\/27\/meta-is-offering-multimillion-dollar-pay-for-ai-researchers-but-not-100m-signing-bonuses\/\">Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s aggressive AI recruiting blitz<\/a> included an offer to acquire Thinking Machines Lab \u2014 and when that failed, Zuckerberg reportedly tried to lure Tulloch with a compensation package that could have been worth up to $1.5 billion over at least six years. (At the time, a Meta spokesperson said that the WSJ\u2019s description of the offer was \u201cinaccurate and ridiculous.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tulloch previously worked at OpenAI and Facebook\u2019s AI Research Group.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/10\/11\/thinking-machines-lab-co-founder-andrew-tulloch-heads-to-meta\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has lost one of its co-founders to Meta. The Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}