Tom Blomfield, a general partner at Y Combinator and cofounder of the fintech startups Monzo and GoCardless, announced this week that he is taking a leave of absence from the accelerator to join Anthropic.
"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," he wrote on X.