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The AI talent wars aren’t letting up \u2014 and neither is Anthropic’s big-name hiring spree.<\/p>\n

Read more Your AI coworker is taking all the credit<\/a><\/p>\n

The AI startup has hired Tom Blomfield, the cofounder of British fintech company Monzo, and one of the biggest names in UK tech.<\/p>\n

Blomfield said on Monday that he is taking a leave of absence from Y Combinator, where he has served as general partner since 2023, to join Anthropic’s compute team.<\/p>\n

“Powerful AI has the potential to improve the life of every human on earth and, as we enter the early stages of recursive self-improvement, availability of compute becomes one of the most important issues to solve,” Blomfield said in a Monday X post.<\/p>\n

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Personal update: I’m taking a leave of absence from YC to join Anthropic. I’ll be working with @NotTomBrown on the compute team.<\/p>\n

Powerful AI has the potential to improve the life of every human on earth and, as we enter the early stages of recursive self-improvement,\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 Tom Blomfield (@t_blom) July 13, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n

Blomfield joins Anthropic as a member of technical staff \u2014 the catch-all job title Anthropic uses for senior employees \u2014 according to his LinkedIn and X profiles.<\/p>\n

Read more Sam Atman shares the \u2018most reliable\u2019 way to tell that ChatGPT 5.6 is now the best model in the world<\/a><\/p>\n

Blomfield cofounded Monzo, a digital bank, in 2015 and was CEO until 2020. He left Monzo entirely in early 2021 after a short stint as president. Blomfield told TechCrunch at the time that he stopped enjoying the role after Monzo was no longer a “scrappy startup.”<\/p>\n

He then turned to investing, joining YC in 2021, initially as a visiting partner.<\/p>\n

Blomfield is the latest notable name in tech to join Anthropic as the AI talent wars enters its celebrity era.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Andrej Karpathy, an OpenAI cofounder, joined Anthropic to lead its pre-training efforts.<\/p>\n

More recently, Anthropic poached several researchers from Google DeepMind, including John Jumper, whose work on AlphaFold won him and CEO Demis Hassabis a Nobel prize.<\/p>\n

Read more The leaders responsible for keeping OpenAI\u2019s AI safe keep leaving<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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