Y Combinator partner Tom Blomfield temporarily leaves to join Anthropic

Blomfield said he is stepping away from YC for now and will work with Tom Brown on securing compute infrastructure for Anthropic’s model training and operations.

Summary

Y Combinator partner and Monzo co-founder Tom Blomfield said he is temporarily leaving YC to join Anthropic. He said he will work with co-founder Tom Brown on securing chips, cloud services and data center resources needed for model training and operation, adding that AI is entering an early stage of recursive self-improvement and that compute supply will be a key issue.

Terms & Concepts
  • recursive self-improvement: A concept in AI where systems help accelerate the development of more capable systems, potentially increasing demand for computing power.