{"id":6617,"date":"2025-10-11T23:53:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T22:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villpress.com\/?p=6617"},"modified":"2025-10-11T23:58:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T22:58:53","slug":"andrew-tulloch-joins-meta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/villpress.com\/cs\/andrew-tulloch-joins-meta\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Tulloch Joins Meta After Co-Founding Thinking Machines Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"

AI researcher and co-founder Andrew Tulloch<\/a> has officially left Thinking Machines Lab (TML) to rejoin Meta, marking one of 2025\u2019s biggest talent moves in artificial intelligence.<\/strong>
Tulloch, best known for his work in machine learning, pretraining, and reasoning systems<\/em>, is returning to the company where he spent over a decade building scalable AI infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why AI Talent Wars Are Heating Up<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The global race for AI supremacy isn\u2019t just about models, it\u2019s about people.
From Silicon Valley to Singapore, top researchers are being poached with billion-dollar offers and stock-heavy incentives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For startups like Thinking Machines Lab (TML)<\/strong>, co-founded in 2025 by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati<\/strong> and Tulloch himself, retaining talent has become a serious challenge.
When Tulloch\u2019s move to Meta was confirmed on October 11, 2025<\/strong>, insiders described it as both \u201cexpected and inevitable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meta\u2019s aggressive hiring strategy underscores how AI expertise has become the new oil<\/strong>, scarce, strategic, and fiercely competed for.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who Is Andrew Tulloch<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Think of Tulloch as a bridge between mathematical theory and large-scale engineering<\/strong>.
An Australian computer scientist and Cambridge-trained mathematician, he has spent more than a decade designing the backbone systems that power modern AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before co-founding TML, Tulloch worked at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n