{"id":27477,"date":"2025-10-11T22:41:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T22:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=27477"},"modified":"2025-10-11T22:41:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T22:41:24","slug":"thinking-machines-lab-co-founder-andrew-tulloch-heads-to-meta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=27477","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Andrew Tulloch heads to Meta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thinking Machines Lab, 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\">The Wall Street Journal reports 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 Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s aggressive AI recruiting blitz 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":"<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 reports 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[10984,6863,2447,11112,7241,1086,5224,16403],"class_list":{"0":"post-27477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-andrew","9":"tag-cofounder","10":"tag-heads","11":"tag-lab","12":"tag-machines","13":"tag-meta","14":"tag-thinking","15":"tag-tulloch"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}