Thinking Machines Lab, an AI startup led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has lost one of its co-founders to Meta.
The Wall Street Journal reported that AI researcher Andrew Tulloch announced his resignation in a message to employees on Friday. A Thinking Machine Labs spokesperson confirmed Tulloch's departure from WSJ, saying, “For personal reasons, we have decided to go our separate ways.”
Back in August, WSJ reported that Mark Zuckerberg's aggressive AI recruiting campaign included a proposed acquisition of Thinking Machines Lab. And when that failed, Zuckerberg reportedly tried to lure Tulloch with a compensation package worth up to $1.5 billion over at least six years. (At the time, a Meta spokesperson called the Journal's description of the proposal “inaccurate and ridiculous.”)
Mr. Tulloch previously worked in OpenAI and Facebook's AI research group.