The AI ​​talent wars don’t let up, and neither does Anthropic’s wave of big-name hiring.

The artificial intelligence startup has hired Tom Blomfield, co-founder of British fintech company Monzo and one of the biggest names in UK tech.

Blomfield said Monday that he will take a leave of absence from Y Combinator, where he has served as a general partner since 2023, to join Anthropic’s computing team.

“Powerful AI has the potential to improve the life of every human being on Earth, and as we enter the early stages of recursive self-improvement, the availability of computing becomes one of the most important problems to solve,” Blomfield said in a Monday X post.

Blomfield joins Anthropic as a member of the technical staff, the general job title Anthropic uses for senior employees, according to his LinkedIn and X profiles.

Blomfield co-founded Monzo, a digital bank, in 2015 and was chief executive until 2020. He left Monzo entirely in early 2021 after a brief period as chairman. Blomfield told TechCrunch at the time that he stopped enjoying the role after Monzo was no longer a “ramshackle startup.”

He then turned to investing and joined YC in 2021, initially as a visiting partner.

Blomfield is the latest notable name in tech to join Anthropic as the AI ​​talent war enters its celebrity era.

Earlier this year, Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI, joined Anthropic to lead its pre-training efforts.

More recently, Anthropic poached several Google DeepMind researchers, including John Jumper, whose work on AlphaFold earned him and CEO Demis Hassabis a Nobel Prize.