YC Partner Tom Blom Takes Leave to Join Anthropic Compute Team
garrytan · x · 2026-07-14
Y Combinator (YC) partner Tom Blom announced he is taking a leave of absence to join Anthropic. He will work with Tom Brown to lead the company's compute team. Blom believes that as AI enters the early stages of self-recursive improvement, compute availability has become one of the most critical issues to solve.
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