Thinking Machines Lab Co-founder Andrew Tulloch Heads To Meta

Thinking Machines Lab, nan AI startup led by erstwhile OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has mislaid 1 of its co-founders to Meta.

The Wall Street Journal reports that AI interrogator Andrew Tulloch announced his departure to labor successful a connection connected Friday. A Thinking Machine Labs spokesperson confirmed Tulloch’s departure to nan WSJ, saying he “has decided to prosecute a different way for individual reasons.”

Back successful August, nan WSJ reported that Mark Zuckerberg’s fierce AI recruiting blitz included an connection to get Thinking Machines Lab — and erstwhile that failed, Zuckerberg reportedly tried to lure Tulloch pinch a compensation package that could person been worthy up to $1.5 cardinal complete astatine slightest six years. (At nan time, a Meta spokesperson said that nan WSJ’s explanation of nan connection was “inaccurate and ridiculous.”)

Tulloch antecedently worked astatine OpenAI and Facebook’s AI Research Group.