{"id":217904,"date":"2025-10-12T00:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T00:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/217904\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T00:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T00:21:08","slug":"thinking-machines-lab-co-founder-andrew-tulloch-heads-to-meta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/217904\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Andrew Tulloch heads to Meta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thinkingmachines.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\">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 noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/thinking-machines-lab-co-founder-departs-for-meta-442d7461\" target=\"_blank\">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\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has lost one of its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[123201,28,1282,91280],"class_list":{"0":"post-217904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-andrew-tulloch","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-meta","11":"tag-thinking-machines-lab"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}