AI BriefingAt Least 105 Former YC Founders Have Worked at OpenAI and Anthropic
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At least 105 founders from Y Combinator have joined OpenAI (70) and Anthropic (35).
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According to tracking data from Startups.RIP, at least 105 founders from Y Combinator are currently working at OpenAI or Anthropic. Specifically, 70 are at OpenAI and 35 are at Anthropic.
Notable founders included are Sam Altman (Loopt), Emmett Shear (Twitch), and Tom Blomfield (GoCardless·Monzo), spanning a wide range of YC batches from S05 to the most recent ones.
This data serves as an indicator of talent concentration into the two companies at the center of foundation model development, reflecting the distribution of human capital in the AI industry and changes in the startup ecosystem.
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