Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Andrew Tulloch heads to Meta

Thinking Machines Lab, the 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 researcher Andrew Tulloch announced his departure to employees successful a connection connected Friday. A Thinking Machine Labs spokesperson confirmed Tulloch’s departure to the WSJ, saying helium “has decided to prosecute a antithetic way for idiosyncratic reasons.”

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

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