Even if you don’t know the name Andrew Tulloch, you’ve probably heard something about his story.
Tulloch is one of Silicon Valley’s cutting-edge AI researchers who have lately attracted astonishingly lucrative job offers from legacy tech companies trying to lure them away from their AI-native startups. In Tulloch’s case, the legacy player was Meta, which reportedly offered the young researcher $1.5 billion over at least six years to leave his current post at Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab. Meta has disputed this figure, but other big numbers have been confirmed by multiple sources, including $100 million signing bonuses and annual compensation packages of that size or greater.
