Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Andrew Tulloch has joined Meta (twitter.com)

Andrew Tulloch, co‑founder of Thinking Machines Lab, has joined Meta, according to the announcement. Details about his specific role or team weren’t provided in the posting, but the move adds a startup founder and researcher into one of the largest industrial AI labs. Given Tulloch’s leadership background, the hire signals Meta’s continued strategy of recruiting entrepreneurial AI talent to strengthen its research and engineering ranks. For the AI/ML community, this is notable for a few reasons: it represents continued consolidation of top talent into big‑tech labs, which can accelerate the translation of research prototypes into large‑scale systems and products. Technically, such hires often bring expertise in building end‑to‑end ML stacks — from model research to data pipelines, efficient training, and deployment — and can influence priorities like model scaling, infrastructure optimization, developer tooling, or open research collaborations. Watch for Tulloch’s publications, engineering contributions, or open‑source releases at Meta as indicators of where his impact shows up (new papers, system improvements, or integrations with Meta’s model ecosystem).