YC partner Tom Blomfield joins Anthropic compute team

Question: Is this the first time a YC partner has left to take a normal job? (I know... "leave of absence", but the question stands) https://twitter.com/t_blom/status/2076580921398931788

More and more, people are beginning to seriously pursue the transition toward recursive self-improvement and discuss it as a genuinely important topic. We are standing on the threshold of an unprecedented world, and it is impossible to foresee what that will mean. I am… Show more

There is a fun pipeline of people from 2010s social discovery startups to AI companies @t_blom prev worked with Anthropic cofounder @NotTomBrown at his company Grouper, a startup that arranged drinks between groups of friends @ScottWu46 (Cognition) cofounded Lunch Club, which… Show more

even if Anthropic were to build AGI they would still be infinitely far away from the aura of this picture i don't think it will ever be surpassed https://twitter.com/guilleflorvs/status/2076619613652090892

Grouper mafia! https://twitter.com/t_blom/status/2076580921398931788

'as we enter the early stages of recursive self-improvement' https://twitter.com/t_blom/status/2076580921398931788