{"id":209241,"date":"2025-10-13T03:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T03:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/209241\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T03:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T03:27:07","slug":"australian-ai-specialist-andrew-tulloch-has-been-poached-to-work-at-facebook-owner-meta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/209241\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian AI specialist Andrew Tulloch has been poached to work at Facebook-owner Meta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg has poached Australian artificial intelligence specialist Andrew Tulloch from one of Silicon Valley\u2019s hottest start-ups, striking a blow for Meta in its big-money push to hoard the sector\u2019s hottest talent.<\/p>\n<p>Tulloch is credited as a co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab \u2013 a mysterious AI start-up run by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati, which had global investors \u2013 including Australia\u2019s Square Peg Capital and Airtree Ventures \u2013 jostling to invest in a $US2 billion ($3 billion) funding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/technology\/aussie-investors-in-record-silicon-valley-ai-deal-20250716-p5mfg1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">round that closed in July<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg has poached Australian artificial intelligence specialist Andrew Tulloch from one of Silicon Valley\u2019s hottest start-ups, striking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-209241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}