Overview
- Semafor reported that AI researcher Andrew Tulloch quit Meta, a move published by Gizmodo on Thursday that Meta has not confirmed.
- The reported departure came the day after Meta released Muse on Wednesday, a consumer-facing agentic AI that can write code and operate a user’s computer.
- Tulloch worked in Meta’s TBD lab inside its Superintelligence Labs and joined the company about ten months ago after earlier recruitment overtures.
- A Wall Street Journal article last year claimed Mark Zuckerberg offered Tulloch a package worth roughly $1.5 billion, a figure Meta spokesperson Andy Stone has denied and which remains unverified.
- The timing follows other high-profile researcher exits and public safety warnings, a pattern that could intensify scrutiny of elite AI hiring, product rollouts, and internal research priorities.