a YC partner just quit handing out money to go work on Anthropic's compute team and everyone read it as a career update
read the room. in one week:
> Anthropic reportedly starts chip talks with Samsung
> reports of an S-1 being prepped for an IPO as early as October
> free Fable extended a third time while usage graphs go vertical
> and now YC partners are leaving the easiest job in tech to work on "recursive self-improvement"
when the people whose whole career is spotting winners stop betting on startups and join the lab itself, that's not a hire. that's insider information walking through the front door
the quiet company stopped being quiet
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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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