Anthropic Hires Monzo Cofounder Tom Blomfield for Compute Team as AI Talent War Intensifies
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Updated · Business Insider · Jul 13
Anthropic Hires Monzo Cofounder Tom Blomfield for Compute Team as AI Talent War Intensifies
3 articles · Updated · Business Insider · Jul 13
Summary
Tom Blomfield said Monday he is taking leave from Y Combinator to join Anthropic’s compute team as a member of technical staff.
Compute availability drove the move, Blomfield said, arguing that as AI enters early recursive self-improvement, securing enough computing power becomes a critical problem.
Blomfield cofounded digital bank Monzo in 2015, served as CEO until 2020, left the company in 2021, and later joined YC as a visiting partner before becoming a general partner in 2023.
Anthropic has been adding high-profile talent this year, including OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy and several Google DeepMind researchers such as Nobel-winning AlphaFold scientist John Jumper.