Key facts
- Tom Blomfield, co-founder of Monzo, has joined AI startup Anthropic.
- Blomfield will work on Anthropic's compute team.
- He is taking a leave of absence from his role as general partner at Y Combinator.
- Blomfield previously served as CEO of Monzo from 2015 to 2020.
- Anthropic has been actively hiring prominent figures in the tech industry.
Tom Blomfield, a prominent figure in the UK tech scene and co-founder of the digital bank Monzo, has been hired by AI startup Anthropic. Blomfield announced on Monday that he is taking a leave of absence from his role as general partner at Y Combinator to join Anthropic's compute team.
Blomfield co-founded Monzo in 2015 and served as its CEO until 2020, departing the company entirely in early 2021. He then transitioned to investing, joining Y Combinator in 2021. His move to Anthropic underscores the intense competition for AI talent, often referred to as the "AI talent wars."
Anthropic has been making significant hires, including OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy and several researchers from Google DeepMind, such as John Jumper, known for his work on AlphaFold.