Even if you don’t know the name Andrew Tulloch, you’ve probably heard something about his story .

Tulloch is one of Silicon Valley’s cutting-edge AI researchers who have lately attracted astonishingly lucrative job offers from legacy tech companies trying to lure them away from their AI-native startups. In Tulloch’s case, the legacy player was Meta , which reportedly offered the young researcher $1.5 billion over at least six years to leave his current post at Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab . Meta has disputed this figure, but other big numbers have been confirmed by multiple sources, including $100 million signing bonuses and annual compensation packages of that size or greater.

In many instances, the fat figures worked: Individual targets have been poached and entire startu

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