Who is Andrew Tulloch? Mira Murati’s co-founder who rejected a $1.5 billion payday from Mark Zuckerberg

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg tried to buy former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines Lab a few months ago. However, when Murati refused, Meta responded by launching a full-scale recruitment drive targeting the startup and approached more than a dozen out of her 50 employees, according to a report by Wall Street Journal. 

However, the chief target for Zuckerberg and Alexandr Wang, Meta’s newly appointed head of Superintelligence Labs, was Murati’s co-founder Andrew Tulloch. Reportedly, Zuckerberg and Wang peppered Tulloch with messages…