India, Aug. 3 -- A graduate of the prestigious University of Cambridge, he started his career as a strategist with Goldman Sachs before an 11 year stint with Meta, where he worked mostly on machine learning. In October 2023, he quit Meta for OpenAI - the company that revolutionized the AI race with ChatGPT. Just over a year later, he moved from OpenAI to Thinking Machines Lab - the AI startup that has become the target of Mark Zuckerberg's poaching blitz and one that is valued at $12 billion in its seed round despite not having launched a product yet.

We are talking about Andrew Tulloch, an Australian computer scientist who turned down Mark Zuckerberg's job offer that would have potentially earned him as much as $1.5 billion over a perio...