Technology
Successful tech founders and executives return to work in AI
July 14, 2026 at 05:59 AM
Several prominent figures who previously built billion-dollar companies have announced new roles in artificial intelligence startups and labs.
- Tom Blomfield, co-founder of Monzo, announced he will join Anthropic's compute team as a member of technical staff.
- Chamath Palihapitiya took the role of CEO at 8090 Labs, his enterprise AI coding startup, alongside a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures.
- Eric Wu, former Opendoor CEO, launched NavigateAI, an AI copilot for construction workers, with $25 million in seed funding.
- Andrej Karpathy, former OpenAI founding member, joined Anthropic's pre-training team in May, stating that the next few years at the frontier of large language models will be especially formative.