Andrew Tulloch, the AI engineer who earns more than Cristiano Ronaldo or Messi: "Meta has infinite money"
His role in relaunching Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has been key
We are used to reading about salaries that break the charts. Normally, it is those two athletes who make the most headlines in this regard. Cristiano Ronaldo , for example, earns a salary of around 208 million at Al Nassr , not including bonuses, and Leo Messi , at Inter Miami , makes about 70 million a year. They are spectacular figures, but they do not come close to the numbers of Andrew Tulloch , a 36-year-old Australian. The name probably does not ring a bell, but he is one of the most prominent Artificial Intelligence engineers of recent years.
Andrew Tulloch, 2 billion for six years of work
If that doesn’t surprise you, we can try revealing his astronomical salary: Mark Zuckerberg , owner of Meta , signed a six-year contract with Andrew Tulloch worth $2 billion . In other words, $333 million per year. "This engineer has allowed Meta, in one year, to go from being crap to being in the top three or four," said Jon Hernández , an Artificial Intelligence communicator, on the podcast "Tengo un plan" .
Jon Hernández: "Meta has infinite money"
Jon Hernández quickly summed up Andrew Tulloch 's career path. "He worked at OpenAI and when he left he started his own company, Thinking Machines , together with Mira Murati , OpenAI's former chief technology officer. He went to Meta with the cash they paid him. Meta has infinite money," the analyst explained. According to the commentator, Mark Zuckerberg 's company has made a multimillion-dollar bet on poaching talent from other companies with the aim of maintaining its strong position in the market.
Andrew Tulloch has only been at Meta for eleven months
Despite Zuckerberg's very strong investment in hiring Andrew Tullock, this engineer was only at Meta for eleven months. He left the company last September, according to The Wall Street Journal, to join Anthropic, the company behind Claude. His departure coincides with Meta's launch of Muse, a personal Artificial Intelligence agent.
