Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg tried to buy former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines Lab a few months ago. However, when Murati refused, Meta responded by launching a full-scale recruitment drive targeting the startup and approached more than a dozen out of her 50 employees, according to a report by Wall Street Journal.
However, the chief target for Zuckerberg and class=”backlink” target=”_blank” href=”https://www.livemint.com/opinion/online-views/meta-mark-zuckerberg-alexandr-wang-scale-ai-chatgpt-openai-google-microsoft-amazon-whatsapp-instagram-scale-characterai-11750248831868.html” data-vars-page-type=”story” data-vars-link-type=”Manual” data-vars-anchor-text=”Alexandr Wang”>Alexandr Wang, Meta’s newly appointed head of Superintelligence Labs, was Murati’s co-founder Andrew Tulloch. Reportedly, Zuckerberg and Wang peppered Tulloch with messages…

![[CITYPNG.COM]White Google Play PlayStore Logo – 1500×1500](https://startupnews.fyi/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/CITYPNG.COMWhite-Google-Play-PlayStore-Logo-1500x1500-1-630x630.png)