{"id":611481,"date":"2026-09-10T06:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T06:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/611481\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T06:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T06:20:17","slug":"andrew-tulloch-poster-child-for-out-of-control-ai-spending-reportedly-quits-meta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/611481\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Tulloch, Poster Child for Out-of-Control AI Spending, Reportedly Quits Meta"},"content":{"rendered":"

AI researcher Andrew Tulloch, who is a legend in Silicon Valley for supposedly rejecting a world-historically huge pay package from Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg, has quit Meta, according to a report by Semafor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tulloch reportedly timed his departure for the day after a major AI product release from the company. Yesterday, Meta released Muse<\/a>, an OpenClaw-like agentic AI platform with coding and computer use capabilities. Muse is marketed to mainstream tech users rather than developers or AI specialists.<\/p>\n

Semafor says no reason is known for Tulloch\u2019s departure, nor is there any word on where he\u2019s headed. A researcher at Meta\u2019s AI rival Anthropic left yesterday and sparked an online frenzy by trumpeting the supposed danger<\/a> of rapid AI research, and the supposed awareness of that danger by industry leaders like Dario Amodei.<\/p>\n

Tulloch\u2019s personal website<\/a> says he grew up in Perth, Australia, and studied math at the University of Sydney, as well as at Cambridge. That site escribes his role at Meta as \u201cworking on superintelligence.\u201d He was indeed working at the TBD lab within Meta\u2019s Superintelligence Labs, which Semafor describes as the \u201ccenter\u201d of Meta\u2019s AI operation. He worked under Meta\u2019s billionaire AI chief Alexandr Wang, co-founder and former CEO of Scale AI.<\/p>\n

A report from about a year ago in the Wall Street Journal<\/a> tells the supposed story that made Tulloch famous. As part of his quest to catch up to his AI competitors, the story goes that Mark Zuckerberg tried to convince Thinking Machines Lab, co-founded by Tulloch and OpenAI former CTO Mira Murati, to be acquired by Meta. When that didn\u2019t work, he turned to the Thinking Machines staff, eventually offering another co-founder Tulloch a pay package that\u2014depending on bonuses and stock performance\u2014could have been worth $1.5 billion over six years. (Andy Stone, a Meta spokesperson, denies this outright, and calls the report on the offer \u201cinaccurate and ridiculous.\u201d)<\/p>\n

Then, about ten months ago<\/a>, Tulloch took the job at Meta after all. It\u2019s not known how much he got paid.<\/p>\n

Gizmodo reached out to Meta for comment on Tulloch\u2019s apparent departure. We will update if we hear back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI researcher Andrew Tulloch, who is a legend in Silicon Valley for supposedly rejecting a world-historically huge pay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,1430,125,9383],"class_list":["post-611481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-meta","tag-technology","tag-thinking-machines-lab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}