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• @rightardia @rightardia on bluesky

  META can't buy AI love.  —  Mark Zuckerberg offered to acquire Thinking Machines Lab, and afterwards tried to recruit its employees, including Andrew Tulloch.  —  Zuckerberg offered Tulloch a package potentially worth $1.5 billion, but Tulloch declined, and none of the company's …

• @ns123abc Nik on x

  Did some deeper research.... Turns out he owns 3.75% of @thinkymachines so he'll be worth $3 billion in a year anyways with their Series B round Zucc's offer was stock & performance based so didn't even come close to the money he'd leave on the table at TML lol.. lmao even

• @jxmnop Jack Morris on x

  super cool! inspiring and a great reminder that most of the top AI researchers are not, in fact, on twitter. most do not tweet, many do not have accounts the loudest people on here, the ones who post the most about AI, are typically just random anonymous tech bros

• @kyliebytes Kylie Robison on x

  jesus christ someone catfished as the thinking machines staffer who turned down the $1b MSL offer and immediately got to work on a crypto scam [image]

• @asynccollab @asynccollab on x

  This account that was just created looks to be an impersonation of the real Andrew Tulloch (guy that turned down the $1.5b Meta offer) and is shilling Shit Coins. Real account @ajtulloch seems to be locked down, created in 2012. Let's follow along and see how far fake Andy can [i…

• @yuchenj_uw Yuchen Jin on x

  Andrew Tulloch - the man at Thinky who turned down Zuck's $1.5B offer, had been at Meta for 11 years. Just like when Google lost Noam Shazeer, and had to pay $2.7B to get him back. Always know who your MVP is, and treat them right. Or pay 100X later, and still hear “hell no.”

• @dorialexander Alexander Doria on x

  What is being missed in the discussion: Tulloch is one of the five thinky co-founders from OpenAI. Meta is not just paying >1B for individual researchers but slices of AI labs.

• @object_zero_ @object_zero_ on x

  @Yuchenj_UW He's a co-founder at TML. Tulloch is likely sitting on >5% of Thinking Machines cap table and at $12bn valuation in last round it would mean walking away from $600m with 20x upside. People thinking he's turned down $1.5bn for a $5m paycheck are just wrong.

• @nearlydaniel Daniel on x

  300 person series D startup: “we just hit 100M ARR!!” meta researcher: “nice, same!”

• @__paleologo Gappy on x

  Zuckerberg is finding it hard to hire from competitors. It seems that company culture, both good (the competitors') and bad (possibly, Meta's), still matters a lot. Same for the sense of mission that people have in some of these places. [image]

• @kyliebytes Kylie Robison on x

  everything happens on X thank you for reading, subscribe to model behavior, the number one hate read for the most powerful people in big tech: https://www.wired.com/... [image]

• r/singularity r on reddit

  90% of OpenAI researchers who were approached by Zuck turned him down, convinced that ‘OpenAI was the closest to reaching AGI’

• r/technology r on reddit

  Thanks for Your $1 Billion Job Offer, Mark Zuckerberg.  I'm Gonna Pass.

• r/usyd r on reddit

  A Sydney Uni Alumni turned down a $1 billion dollar job offer