Tom Blomfield, co-founder of British digital bank Monzo and payments firm GoCardless, said on July 13 that he is taking a leave of absence from startup accelerator Y Combinator to join Anthropic as a member of technical staff on its compute team. He will work under Anthropic co-founder and chief compute officer Tom Brown on the infrastructure that trains and runs the company's models. The hire extends a run of high-profile 2026 additions at Anthropic that includes Andrej Karpathy from OpenAI, Nobel laureate John Jumper from Google DeepMind, and former Microsoft Azure executive Eric Boyd.
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