from metropolitan✴ Researcher Andrew Tulloch was offered a whopping $1.5 billion during negotiations, but left. He reportedly agreed to undisclosed conditions, but has been with the social networking giant for a year wall street journal Refer to people familiar with the matter.
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About him leaving Meta✴ Mr Tulloch made the announcement the day before, September 9. The expert did not specify where he plans to work next. He did not respond to requests for comment and told Meta✴ They declined to comment.
Australian Andrew Tulloch graduated with honors from the University of Sydney and works at Meta✴ (Then Facebook✴) in the field of machine learning. In 2016, OpenAI, a then-little-known startup, tried to lure him away, but the researcher refused, in part because the pay was too low: On Facebook✴ Although it was $800,000, they offered him three times less.
He finally agreed to move to OpenAI in 2023, when ChatGPT was released. In 2025, he went to work at the new startup Thinking Machines Lab. In August of that year, Mark Zuckerberg tried to lure Tullock back to his company, offering a $1 billion compensation package that, with top bonuses and stock growth, could reach $1.5 billion over at least six years. The researcher initially refused, but months later he agreed for an amount that was never disclosed. Later in Yuanzhong✴ He didn’t even have a job for a year.
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