[YC Partner Tom Blomfield Temporarily Leaves YC to Join Anthropic Compute Team] According to monitoring by Beating, YC partner and Monzo co-founder Tom Blomfield has announced that he is temporarily leaving YC to join Anthropic. He will work alongside co-founder Tom Brown, focusing on compute-related tasks. This team is responsible for securing chips, cloud services, and data center resources for model training and operations. Blomfield stated that AI is entering the early stages of recursive self-improvement, and compute supply will become one of the most critical issues. Blomfield is currently on leave from YC and has not yet announced a formal departure. [Original Link]