@t_blom: Personal update: I'm taking a leave of absence from YC to join Anthropic. I'll be working with @NotTomBrown on the comp…
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Tom Blom, a YC team member, announces he is taking a leave of absence from Y Combinator to join Anthropic's compute team, citing the importance of compute for recursive self-improvement in AI.
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Personal update: I’m taking a leave of absence from YC to join Anthropic. I’ll be working with @NotTomBrown on the compute team.
Powerful AI has the potential to improve the life of every human on earth and, as we enter the early stages of recursive self-improvement, availability of compute becomes one of the most important issues to solve.
I’m excited to get started
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