Meta Poaches AI Researcher with $1.5 Billion Package in Unprecedented Talent War Escalation
Meta offers Andrew Tulloch, co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab, rumored $1.5B over six years—marking most expensive AI hire ever and signaling aggressive push to close gap with OpenAI, Google, Anthropic.
October 14, 2025 10 min read meta ai-talent compensation thinking-machines-lab