Zuckerberg’s Silent Infiltration of Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab
Meta struck just days after Tinker went live.
Just days after Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab unveiled its Tinker API, Meta quietly pulled off a move that felt more like espionage than recruitment. Andrew Tulloch, the company’s co-founder and one of its core system architects, was gone, back under Zuckerberg’s command, joining the newly minted Superintelligence Labs alongside Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang.
The timing was not simply suspicious; it was surgical. Thinking Machines had barely stepped into the public eye before one of its founding brains was absorbed by the very ecosystem it was meant to challenge. Meta did not poach from a rival, it breached a frontier.
Inside the industry, the message was clear. This was not a coincidence or a “boomerang hire.” It was a precision grab, the kind of move that happens when a company stops competing in the open and begins operating like an intelligence agency, quietly mapping every rival lab and pulling its circuitry apart one mind at a time.
Meta is not expanding; it is infiltrating.