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Monzo co‑founder Tom Blomfield joins Anthropic’s compute team
Key Points
- Tom Blomfield, co‑founder of Monzo and GoCardless, joins Anthropic’s compute team.
- He is taking a leave of absence from Y Combinator to take the new role.
- Anthropic plans to deploy up to one million Google TPUs and over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs.
- The company has secured more than a gigawatt of compute capacity for this year and 3.5 GW of next‑gen chips by 2027.
- Blomfield cited AI’s potential to improve lives and the critical need for compute resources.
- Anthropic’s 2026 hiring spree includes Andrej Karpathy, John Jumper, and Eric Boyd.
- The startup has confidentially filed for an IPO, targeting a possible listing this autumn.