AI researcher Andrew Tulloch leaves Meta

This departure is less about one researcher and more about the signal it sends on talent flows out of Big Tech's AI labs. For the RWA/crypto markets, the relevance is indirect but real: as AI talent disperses, the competitive balance of frontier development shifts, potentially affecting the pace and direction of AI infrastructure investments that underpin tokenized asset ecosystems. The open question is whether this is a trickle or a trend, and whether the talent is moving to startups, funds, or independent projects that could intersect with decentralized AI narratives.