WSJ told about the engineer who refused to work for Zuckerberg for $ 1.5 billion

Mark Zuckerberg, the head of the American Meta (the company's activities are recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation), offered a salary of $1-1.5 billion to Andrew Tullock, an artificial intelligence (AI) engineer from the OpenAI organization, but was refused. This was reported on August 3 by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

According to the publication, Tallock joined OpenAI several years ago from Facebook (owned by Meta, a company whose activities are recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation) and became the founder of the startup Thinking Machines Lab. It is noted that Zuckerberg offered the engineer a salary of $ 1-1.5 billion, taking into account a number of bonuses, as well as the growth of the company's shares, but the specialist refused him.

In addition, Meta tried to buy Thinking Machines Lab, but startup founder Mira Murati declined the offer. Zuckerberg's company denies this information.

Tullock is an Australian native who, after graduating from the University of Sydney, worked with high results on machine learning at Facebook. Mike Vernal, a former top manager of the social network, described him as an "exceptional genius," adds "Газета.Ru ".

On July 15, the BBC reported that Meta would spend hundreds of billions of dollars to create AI data centers in the United States. The first multi-gigawatt data center, named Prometheus, is expected to be operational in 2026.

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