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OpenAI Recruits Former Claude Code Product Lead Cat Wu
Cat Wu has joined OpenAI as a product lead after leaving Anthropic, where she oversaw Claude Code. Her move marks the third reported departure of a core Claude Code team member within ten days.
Cat Wu announced on X that she had joined OpenAI as a product lead in its core product group. The announcement came one day after she left Anthropic, where she had led product work for Claude Code, the company’s AI programming tool. OpenAI president Greg Brockman reposted her announcement and welcomed her.
Wu, whose full name is Catherine Wu, is a product manager prominent in Silicon Valley’s AI sector. Her move is significant because Claude Code is described as one of Anthropic’s most profitable products, giving her direct experience with a commercially important business.
She is also the third core member of the Claude Code team reported to have departed within ten days. The earlier departures were Anthony Morris, credited with creating its desktop version, and Thariq Shihipar, a core engineer working on agents.
The personnel changes come at a sensitive time for Anthropic, which had filed its IPO prospectus about a week earlier. The available facts do not explain why the three employees left or establish that their departures will affect the offering, but Wu’s move places an experienced product leader from a rival coding-tool business inside OpenAI.
Source: 雷峰网
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